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OmniAuth is an authentication library written in [https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ Ruby] under MIT License<ref name="home">Home Page https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT</ref>. OmniAuth is used to enable third party authentication in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails Ruby on Rails] applications. As of September 2015, OpenAuth supported authentication via 218 specific service providers<ref name="los">List of Strategies https://github.com/intridea/omniauth/wiki/List-of-Strategies</ref>. In addition to the specific service providers, 13 generic authentication plugins are also provided.<ref name="los"/>

==History==
While working a Intridea, Micheal Bleigh started working on OmniAuth in 2008<ref name="home"/><ref>Micheal Bleigh http://www.intridea.com/about/team/michael-bleigh</ref>. OmniAuth version 1.0 was released in November of 2011.<ref>Bleigh, Michael (2 November 2011) http://www.intridea.com/blog/2011/11/2/omniauth-1-0</ref> The latest release of OmniAuth, version 1.2.2, was tagged on July 9, 2014<ref>omniauth Releases https://github.com/intridea/omniauth/releases</ref>.

==Strategies==
OmniAuth referes to the plugins that provide authentication via authentication providers, ''strategies''. Strategies are further categorized into [[#Provider Strategies|provider strategies]] and [[#Developer Strategies|developer strategies]].

===Provider Strategies ===
Provider strategies enable authentication to a specific authentication provider. Some example provider strategies are:
* Facebook
* GitHub
* Twitter
* Google
* Windows Live ID

===Developer Strategies===
Developer strategies enable authentication to providers that conform to open or well known standards. Most of the specific provider strategies are customized versions of one of the developer strategies.
* CAS
* Http Basic
* Kerberos
* LDAP
* OAuth
* OAuth2
* OpenID
* OpenAM
* SAML
* Shibboleth
* WS-Federation
* XAuth
* ADFS

==Ruby on Rails Integration==
Integrating OmniAuth into a Rails application that follows the standard authentication pattern for a Rails application is simply a matter of: (1) initialize an OmniAuth::Builder with your authentication provider details, (2) route login requests to <code>/auth/:provider</code> instead of your own login page, and (3) route <code>/auth/:provider/callback</code> to a controller action that initializes your user session (e.g. <code>sessions#create</code>)<ref>OmniAuth Wiki https://github.com/intridea/omniauth/wiki</ref><ref>OmniAuth README.md https://github.com/intridea/omniauth</ref>.

==References==
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