Chapter 6. Authentication and basic authorization
This chapter covers
- Working with engine code and generators
- Building an authentication system with an engine
- Implementing basic authorization checking
You’ve now created two resources for your Ticketee application: projects and tickets. Now you’ll use a gem called Devise, which provides authentication, to let users sign in to your application. With this feature, you can track which tickets were created by which users. A little later, you’ll use these user records to allow and deny access to certain parts of the application.
The general idea behind having users for this application is that some users are in charge of creating projects (project owners) and others use whatever the projects ...
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