Re:OmniSocial: a Rails 3 Engine for Twitter and Facebook Logins
by bcrescimanno on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @04:19PM
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FTA: "If there’s one thing I’ve learnt over the last three Rails Rumbles, it’s that if you ask a user to create an account on your web application, then you may as well be asking them to leave."
Requiring users to sign in through a 3rd party site rather than offering them the chance to sign in directly provides the same, "you may leave," suggestion to a whole different class of users.
I know that without the capability to manage authentication with my own app as well as the hookup to the 3rd parties, it's a non-starter for me. I realize, of course, that other projects may not have this restriction. Very cool that you guys are putting this out there; I'm sure there are a ton of new Rails developers who will love this super simple integration.
Requiring users to sign in through a 3rd party site rather than offering them the chance to sign in directly provides the same, "you may leave," suggestion to a whole different class of users.
I know that without the capability to manage authentication with my own app as well as the hookup to the 3rd parties, it's a non-starter for me. I realize, of course, that other projects may not have this restriction. Very cool that you guys are putting this out there; I'm sure there are a ton of new Rails developers who will love this super simple integration.