I've used the devise-token-auth one you mentioned without too many 
issues...what was the problem you had with it?

On Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 11:42:53 AM UTC-7, Ian Young wrote:
>
> 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 
> <https://github.com/gonzalo-bulnes/simple_token_authentication> simple 
> ones <https://github.com/baschtl/devise-token_authenticatable> that are 
> tightly coupled to Devise and don't do quite enough (for example, only one 
> token per user), and there's this one 
> <https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth> 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.
>  

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