Agile Web Development with Rails 8

Iteration I1: Authenticating Users

Building a user administration system is a common task in web applications. Rails provides a generator to help you get started. The code it generates is a good starting point, and takes care of important details like storing passwords securely. It builds upon sessions, mailers, and jobs, which we’ve seen in previous chapters.

We start by running the generator:

depot> bin/rails generate authentication

This creates three models: Session, User, and Current. It creates controllers for sessions and passwords and a controller concern for authentication. Finally, it creates views for passwords and their associated mailer. The one task it leaves to you is the task of defining the user. We could create ...