> require 'crowd-auth'
> c = Crowd::Auth.new
> c.crowd_url = "http://your.crowd.url:8095"
> c.crowd_app_name = "app_name"
> c.crowd_app_pass = "app_password"
> resp = c.authenticate('username', 'password')
> puts resp.code
200
Anything but a 200 means authorization failed.
Overload crowd_auth_uri with your crowd's rest url.
By default, that is /crowd/rest/usermanagement/latest/authentication
Kastner, as always for the insight and help making things cleaner.