devise for user authentication and paperclip for avatar

[ashishrudra]

[stevenweber]

We're going to have to configure a Heroku-compatible email method.

[stevenweber]

Good start! Looks like you need to work these changes into current master, though.

[ashishrudra]

it's an alternative of twitter authentication. I think we need to choose one of them.

[stevenweber]

I believe Devise supports omniauth, i.e. Twitter.

[stevenweber]

Talked with @ashishrudra offline about this. I'm not opposed to dropping Twitter support for a more standard login approach, but I see much more work ahead of us with this approach:

1. Getting email support set up
2. Getting S3 set up and integrated
3. Internationalization the generated templates
4. Updating generated migrations to work with our current structure

Plus I hear we may be able to require emails with our existing omniauth approach, which I think is key to either approach.