Ruby OpenID

A Ruby library for verifying and serving OpenID identities.

• Easy to use API for verifying OpenID identites - OpenID::Consumer
• Support for serving OpenID identites - OpenID::Server
• Does not depend on underlying web framework
• Supports multiple storage mechanisms (Filesystem, ActiveRecord, Memory)
• Example code to help you get started, including:
  • Ruby on Rails based consumer and server
  • OpenIDLoginGenerator for quickly getting creating a rails app that uses OpenID for authentication
  • ActiveRecordOpenIDStore plugin
• Comprehensive test suite
• Supports both OpenID 1 and OpenID 2 transparently

Before running the examples or writing your own code you'll need to install the library. See the INSTALL file or use rubygems:

gem install ruby-openid

Check the installation:

$ irb
irb> require 'rubygems'
=> false
irb> gem 'ruby-openid'
=> true

The library is known to work with Ruby 1.9.2 and above on Unix, Max OS X and Win32.

The best way to start is to look at the rails_openid example. You can run it with:

cd examples/rails_openid
script/server

If you are writing an OpenID Relying Party, a good place to start is: examples/rails_openid/app/controllers/consumer_controller.rb

And if you are writing an OpenID provider: examples/rails_openid/app/controllers/server_controller.rb

The library code is quite well documented, so don't be squeamish, and look at the library itself if there's anything you don't understand in the examples.

• GitHub repository: openid/ruby-openid
• Homepage: OpenID.net

Discussion regarding the Ruby OpenID library and other JanRain OpenID libraries takes place on the OpenID mailing list.

Please join this list to discuss, ask implementation questions, report bugs, etc. Also check out the openid channel on the freenode IRC network.

If you have a bugfix or feature you'd like to contribute, don't hesitate to send it to us: How to contribute.

Copyright 2006-2012, JanRain, Inc.

Contact openid@janrain.com.

Apache Software License. For more information see the LICENSE file.