Rails, Angular, Postgres, and Bootstrap

Setting Up Devise for Authentication

Creating an authentication system from scratch is rarely a good idea. It’s difficult to get every part of it correct since security controls can be subverted in unusual and counterintuitive ways. Because of this, we’re going to use a tried-and-true Rails plugin called Devise.^[10]

Devise is built to handle almost any sort of authentication requirement, and will definitely suit our needs. Here’s what we want our authentication system to do:

• Employees who need to use our app will sign up on their own.
• They must use their company email when signing up.
• Their password must be at least 10 characters long.

We aren’t going to require users to validate their email addresses, mostly to keep things simple by ...