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$ gem install authentication
or add gem 'authentication'
to your Gemfile.
Authentication
to your controller.#find_current_user
in your controller.#login!
and #logout!
to log in/out.#current_user
and #current_user_id
to get current user or its id.#logged_in?
to ask logged in or not.#after_login
will be invoked after #login!
.#after_logout
will be invoked after #logout!
.Example and spec might be also helpful.
Under the hood, methods above(current_user
etc.) are delegated to the instance of Authentication::Authenticator
, which is built for "current_user". So, it's possible to create custom authenticator for a client which isn't a current user.
session[:current_user_id]
of the class includes Authentication
will be changed.Authentication
will include Forwardable
.Authentication
will have a method called current_user_authenticator
.The goal of this library is to provide standard authorization mechanism for web application with minimal dependency by short and concise code which can be understand easily.
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We found that authentication demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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