Choices, choices, choices: CAS or OpenID?

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

With RubyCAS and Ruby-OpenID you have two choices to enable authentication for your application.
But which choice is the best one? Or rather the correct one? That depends on your usage scenario.
RubyCAS and OpenID solve, roughly, two different problems:

Single Sign On
User account management

Solving the Single Sign On problem
This is RubyCAS’ strength. If you want to offer [...]

A case for CAS

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

A couple of days ago, I talked about the limited options of SSO on the Ruby side of things. This turned out to be a bit of a mistake. In fact, the two viable SSO solutions are viable, and feature rich, providing what you need on the authentication server’s side, as well as the client’s [...]