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Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails, Third Edition
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Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails, Third Edition

by Michael Hartl
April 2015
Beginner
744 pages
18h 19m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 8. Log In, Log Out

Now that new users can sign up for our site (Chapter 7), it’s time to give them the ability to log in and log out. We’ll be implementing all three of the most common models for login/logout behavior on the web: “forgetting” users on browser close (Section 8.1 and Section 8.2), automatically remembering users (Section 8.4), and optionally remembering users based on the value of a “remember me” check box (Section 8.4.5).1

1. Another common model is to expire the session after a certain amount of time. This is especially appropriate on sites containing sensitive information, such as banking and financial trading accounts.

The authentication system we develop in this chapter will allow us to customize the site and implement ...

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