LDAP with Rails

Quick Example of a user-authentication against an LDAP directory:

require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ldap'

ldap = Net::LDAP.new
ldap.host = your_server_ip_address
ldap.port = 389
ldap.auth "joe_user", "opensesame"
if ldap.bind

# authentication succeeded
else
# authentication failed
end

Quick Example of a search against an LDAP directory:

 require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ldap'

ldap = Net::LDAP.new :host => server_ip_address,
  :port => 389,
  :auth => {
        :method => :simple,
        :username => "cn=manager,dc=example,dc=com",

        :password => "opensesame"
  }

filter = Net::LDAP::Filter.eq( "cn", "George*" )
treebase = "dc=example,dc=com"

ldap.search( :base => treebase, :filter => filter ) do |entry|

puts "DN: #{entry.dn}"
entry.each do |attribute, values|
 puts "   #{attribute}:"
 values.each do |value|
   puts "      --->#{value}"
 end
end

end

p ldap.get_operation_result