added devise gem
created user model and added devise for authentication
fixed devise install issue by commenting out devise code and running the rails generate devise:install step that I had missed, added flash notifications on application.html.erb
created users controller with generator
ran devise migration and edited table to remove my password digest column in favor of encrypted_password from devise
created login form and changed welcome controller and view to facilitate login
created a tom user in the database
added some validations to uesrs model
fixed typo in password_confirmable
generated an ActionMailer for verifying users
updated development action:mailer config based on http://rubydoc.info/github/plataformatec/devise/master/frames
started to fill in methods on users controller
added mailer parameters info to controller and created the email template for the mailer
added email send action to user_controller
added gmail configuration for ActionMailer, need to add gem for handling env variables and controlling what gets pushed to github
added figaro gem
updated alert & notifications code
added env variables and mailer parameters for sending emails in production
removed login form I was creating because devise did everything
removed username requirement, need to eliminate it from database or alter column to be is_admin