Basic Auth w/Restful Authentication

restful_auth_basic.rb

# Here’s a way to do http basic authentication and tie it in 
# to the Restful Authentication mechanism to make current_person accessible:

def authenticate_person
  authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |login, password|
    person = Person.authenticate(login, password)
    return false if !person or person.nil?
    session[:person_id] = person.id 
  end
end

# then just add before_filter :authenticate_person to your controller.

# You can now access current_person to obtain the person that 
# logged in via the basic auth.