Doing HTTP-Auth with Ruby on Rails

Narnach posted a link to blogs.23.nu and tagged it with ruby, rails, http, Auth, authentication, security

This blog article shows how easy it is to do HTTP-Auth with Ruby on Rails.\r\n\r\n\"The Ruby on Rails bunch seems Web coder centric - no surprise there. Seems Web people prefer form/session based authentication while Unix weenies prefer HTTP-Authentication. Ever tried to get past form based authentication in a script? It's a pain.\r\n\r\nThere are some issues with HTTP-Authentication in most Web Application environments but usually you can hack it in.\r\n\r\nFor Ruby on rails you don't even need to patch.\"