I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations for gems for serving simple token-based authentication in Rails. You know, when you need to provide safe API access but you don't need the overhead of OAuth2. Just have the client send some credentials, get a token, use the token to make requests.
Providing this in Rails is just complicated enough that I don't want to reinvent it myself, but there's a strange dearth of good solutions out there. There are a couple[1] simple ones[2] that are tightly coupled to Devise and don't do quite enough (for example, only one token per user), and there's this one[3] which does a bit too much, is still tightly coupled to Devise, and I'm liking less the more I use it. Am I missing any good ones? It's strange to see such a lack of activity around a very common need, and it makes me think that everyone is just shamefully reimplementing this anew for each project. Links: 1. https://github.com/gonzalo-bulnes/simple_token_authentication 2. https://github.com/baschtl/devise-token_authenticatable 3. https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
