rails - authentication, authorization and auditing confusion

Question

I am trying to decide on an AAA plugin/s but there seems to be so many of them! and a lot of the posts seem quite old, 07/08.

I saw goldberg but it seems like the site is down...

my app needs login,logout and forgotten passwords and needs to be able to restrict a user based on controllers/methods(role based).

On the auditing side I need to be able to log when a user edits/creates data.

Answer 1

you can start looking at Devise for authentication, and CanCan for simple authorization.

for logging, don't know if there are any plugins, but you easily can write some observer.