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Security (CAS and OpenID) with Ruby

Community
Ruby
Topics
Ruby on Rails,
Security

In this presentation from QCon SF 2007, Justin Gehtland explains two open solutions to distributed identity and their Rails integration components: the OpenID system (using ruby-openid) and CAS (using rubycas-client).

Zed Shaw and Matt Pelletier Decide if Rails is Enterprise Ready

Community
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Enterprise Architecture,
Open Source,
Ruby on Rails

Zed Shaw and Matt Pelletier sat down with InfoQ's Obie Fernandez at RailsConf to explore some of the reasoning behind setting up the mongrel project, getting adoption in enterprise and dealing with developers who just aren't ready. Watch the interview to find out how much Shaw's Enterprise Mongrel product will cost, where the support contracts are and who'll come out on top when the vultures land.

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What Social Networks Are Teaching Us About Data Portability

Community
Architecture
Topics
Technology,
Data Access,
Data Portability,
Open Source,
Community

As more social networking sites are popping up, the questions around the data they keep are rising. Data portability has become the watch phrase across the Web 2.0 world. Is there something to be learned about data access and portability from these services?

In Case You Missed It: A .NET OpenID Library

Community
.NET
Topics
Interop,
Dynamic Languages

For those of you looking at using OpenID, there is a .NET compatible library available. The Library was written in Boo, a .NET language inspired by Python. It also leverages a library from the Mono project.