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Agile Web Development with Rails 7.2
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Agile Web Development with Rails 7.2

by Sam Ruby
March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
12h 10m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Iteration I2: Authenticating Users

What does it mean to add login support for administrators of our store?

  • We need to provide a form that allows them to enter a username and password.

  • Once they’re logged in, we need to record that fact somehow for the rest of the session (or until they log out).

  • We need to restrict access to the administrative parts of the application, allowing only people who are logged in to administer the store.

We could put all of the logic into a single controller, but it makes more sense to split it into two—a session controller to support logging in and out and a controller to welcome administrators:

 depot>​​ ​​bin/rails​​ ​​generate​​ ​​controller​​ ​​Sessions​​ ​​new​​ ​​create​​ ​​destroy
 depot>​​ ​​ ...
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