Has anyone created a web-app mix-in for Sinatra and Datamapper with Ruby?

Question

I got sick of rewriting login forms and user account management pages with the usual use-cases of registering a new account, changing password, changing e-mail, w/ associated e-mails. (This is for clients that won't accept an OAuth/OpenID solution). So I am creating a sample site with Sinatra and Datamapper that contains nothing but those features in their most distilled form.

What I'd like to do is package that site into a gem that someone could drop into an existing app and customize. I think it could get tricky because the app defines its own database and web server. So they would have to be redesigned as mix-ins for a Sinatra::App and Datamapper::Model.

Has anyone else tried this?

Answer 1

I created the Ruby gem "accounts" to provide this functionality for web-apps using Sinatra. It can be cloned or forked at https://github.com/lsiden/accounts.