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User have to create an account right now to log in. This might be too big of a turn off for MTurkers. Use a restful API to pass in automatically generated user tokens that MTurkers and ODesk workers can use instead of logging in.

The dataset generator does not do much currently. It would be great if the generator was expanded to automatically add routes to routes.rb, automatically add base_helper to the new dataset's helper file, and set up its controller with default task and tutorial pages.

Datasets could have a type, ie "distant supervision", and could inherit base UI and tutorial code from a parent sources of that type. The generator would use these base templates to do the automatic generation discussed above.

Passwords and database information is openly stored in database.yml. To prevent people from stealing your passwords, this information should be hidden somehow.