Loomio
Fri 30 Nov 2012 7:10AM

Flexible membership authentification api?

DF Dan Finlay Public Seen by 47

Lots of groups already have "members" and would rather let members be pre-approved by their existent system than have to sign up for a new service. Wordpress, Drupal, and especially Facebook Groups would greatly benefit from member pre-approving modules.

ST

Sean Tilley Sat 1 Dec 2012 11:38PM

Seeing as you're a Rails project, I'd recommend taking a look at the OmniAuth gem, which can connect to a handful of services for authentication and post-sharing.

Of course, if you're talking about an API that would somehow wrap around different authentication methods (oAuth, Persona, Devise, etc), I suppose that would be particularly interesting as well, if you're going for flexibility.

JL

Jon Lemmon Sun 2 Dec 2012 10:04PM

Agree with the spirit of this. However, like what a few of the others said, I think we need a bit more detail about the proposed solution and have a think about who would actually be implementing this and when.

RG

Robert Guthrie Mon 3 Dec 2012 12:20PM

@danfinlay Would you like to have a skype about this? I've implemented OAuth with Devise before and if you're interested in doing this, then I'd be happy to help you implement it in a branch.. then the decision will be about wether to include it or not, which will be an easy decision to make because it's an awesome feature.