Ruby On Rails Active Directory Authentication

During a conversation at work, the idea of using ruby on rails for future development projects came up.  One of the ‘hurdles’ that was discussed was integrating it with Active Directory (LDAP).  So, I went out searching to see how to integrate it.  Wouldn’t you know, like everything else, it is has been done before and it doesn’t look that hard.  Here are a couple of links to keep around if you are up against the same requirement:

Ruby/Rails user authentication with Microsoft Active Directory  The comments include some talk about invisible logons which is something I would like to tackle in the near future to see if I could get it to work.  This would be the ideal situation for internal network users of the applications so they don’t have to sign in all the time, and it would force authentication from the outside user who isn’t already authenticated on the domain.

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ActiveDirectory  This is a page on the Rails Wiki that talks some more about AD integration.

Of course, Active Directory isn’t the only thing out there someone would want to authenticate against, so on the Rails Wiki, there is a whole section dedicated to this topic  http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Authentication

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