You should look into the rails gem 'devise' if you're not already. It comes built in with everything you need for login, like account creation, passwords encrypted with bcrypt, forgotten password reset. And it also works with oauth login so it'll still support twitter.
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we'll implement other signup options, you're right. twitter connect is fast and easy, it's why we began with it. thx!
You should look into the rails gem 'devise' if you're not already. It comes built in with everything you need for login, like account creation, passwords encrypted with bcrypt, forgotten password reset. And it also works with oauth login so it'll still support twitter.