Hi all, i’m building my first project in RoR. And i’m now looking into authentication. A lot of the posts online recommended devise so i’m looking into that.
I require authentication in a html website and a json api and i’m using ruby 1.9.3 and rails 4.1.4. Now I have seen that devise has removed TokenAuthenticatable. Is devise still a good option for token authentication or are there better options?
I have seen some custom implementations of token authentication with devise. But i’m reluctant to use these, security is one of those area’s I try to prevent hacking together my own code. My users trust me with their personal information, and I think I should respect that trust by using a mature solution, which has the best chance of keeping their data secure.
Just to be clear I’m not running a bank or handling medical data, but still I don’t want to implement the first snippet of code that I see and risk leaking my users data.
I think you can implement that yourself along with Devise. Since you get so much with devise I would do that if it were me.
last time I discussed this with business people, the need for the token auth outweighed the security considerations. We ameliorated this by 1) Making the token expire 7 days after you generate it, and 2) making it automatically expire the moment it is used.
Also, if you send that sh*t over email then you’re still transmitting it in plain-text, which is susceptible to MITM. But the limits we put in made us confident this was an acceptable middle-ground.
Then again, if you’re storing celebrities’ naked pictures of themselves, you might want to reconsider
No only my own private ‘au natural’ pictures will be hosted.
I’m looking a the gem, but i can’t find how to request a token after you have implemented it. Is there more documention about using the token authentication?
