Several people have approached me since RubyConf ‘07 about posting the slides from my talk. While normally I would not hesitate to do so, in this case, I pause since, well, they suck. They are useless. They were and are merely socially mandated background images, a kind of psychological contract between myself and the audience to prove that I thought about this stuff before I took the stage. The meat of the presentation was all in TextMate and terminal.
So, instead of posting slides, I hereby post the links to all the interesting stuff I talked about, in no particular order:
- restful_open_id_authentication—a plugin for Rails that provides both OpenID based authentication AND regular restful auth against the local database
- MyOpenId—the OpenID server I use for my identity and for demos
- ruby-openid —the gem containing the wrapper bits for all the OpenID http calls and token processing
- ruby-yadis—the Yadis gem can also be found here, which includes directory services for OpenID providers
- rubycas-client—both a gem and a Rails plugin, easily enables authentication via a private CAS server
- rubycas-server—a Ruby/Camping CAS implementation
- JA-SIG CAS—the original Java implementation of CAS, as a distributable .war file
Feel free to drop me a line about any of this information, and I hope the talk was useful!