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https://github.com/adamniedzielski/tiddle
Devise strategy for token authentication in API-only Ruby on Rails applications
https://github.com/adamniedzielski/tiddle
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Devise strategy for token authentication in API-only Ruby on Rails applications
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/adamniedzielski/tiddle
- Owner: adamniedzielski
- License: mit
- Created: 2015-02-12T13:18:31.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-04-18T16:07:20.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-18T20:26:25.333Z (6 months ago)
- Language: Ruby
- Homepage:
- Size: 144 KB
- Stars: 387
- Watchers: 9
- Forks: 59
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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README
# Tiddle
Tiddle provides Devise strategy for token authentication in API-only Ruby on Rails applications. Its main feature is **support for multiple tokens per user**.
Tiddle is lightweight and non-configurable. It does what it has to do and leaves some manual implementation to you.
## Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
```ruby
gem 'tiddle'
```
And then execute:
$ bundle
## Usage
1) Add ```:token_authenticatable``` inside your Devise-enabled model:
```ruby
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
:recoverable, :trackable, :validatable,
:token_authenticatable
end
```
2) Generate the model which stores authentication tokens. The model name is not important, but the Devise-enabled model should have association called ```authentication_tokens```.
```
rails g model AuthenticationToken body:string:index user:references last_used_at:datetime expires_in:integer ip_address:string user_agent:string
```
```ruby
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :authentication_tokens
end
```
```body```, ```last_used_at```, ```ip_address``` and ```user_agent``` fields are required.
3) Customize ```Devise::SessionsController```. You need to create and return token in ```#create``` and expire the token in ```#destroy```.
```ruby
class Users::SessionsController < Devise::SessionsController
def create
user = warden.authenticate!(auth_options)
token = Tiddle.create_and_return_token(user, request)
render json: { authentication_token: token }
end
def destroy
Tiddle.expire_token(current_user, request) if current_user
render json: {}
end
private
# this is invoked before destroy and we have to override it
def verify_signed_out_user
end
end
```
4) Require authentication for some controller:
```ruby
class PostsController < ApplicationController
before_action :authenticate_user!
def index
render json: Post.all
end
end
```
5) Send ```X-USER-EMAIL``` and ```X-USER-TOKEN``` as headers of every request which requires authentication.
You can read more in a blog post dedicated to Tiddle - https://blog.sundaycoding.com/blog/2015/04/04/token-authentication-with-tiddle/
## Note on Rails session
The safest solution in API-only application is not to rely on Rails session at all and disable it. Put this line in your ```application.rb```:
```ruby
config.middleware.delete ActionDispatch::Session::CookieStore
```
More: https://blog.sundaycoding.com/blog/2015/04/04/token-authentication-with-tiddle/#rails-session
## Using field other than email
Change ```config.authentication_keys``` in Devise intitializer and Tiddle will use this value.
## Security
Usually it makes sense to remove user's tokens after a password change. Depending on the project and on your taste, this can be done using various methods like running `user.authentication_tokens.destroy_all` after the password change or with an `after_save` callback in your model which runs `authentication_tokens.destroy_all if encrypted_password_changed?`.
In case of a security breach, remove all existing tokens.
Tokens are expiring after certain period of inactivity. This behavior is optional. If you want your token to expire, create it passing `expires_in` option:
```ruby
token = Tiddle.create_and_return_token(user, request, expires_in: 1.month)
```