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The Rails 5 Way, Fourth Edition
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The Rails 5 Way, Fourth Edition

by Obie Fernandez, Kevin Faustino
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1084 pages
28h 41m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 14 Authentication and Authorization

Thanks goodness [sic], there’s only about a billion of these because DHH doesn’t think auth/auth [sic] belongs in the core.

—George Hotelling at http://del.icio.us/revgeorge/authentication

If you’re building a web application, more often than not you will need some form of user security. User security can be broken up into two categories, authentication, which verifies the identity of a user, and authorization, which verifies what they are able to do in your application.

In version 3.1, Rails introduced has_secure_password, which adds methods to set and authenticate against a BCrypt password. Although this functionality now exists in the framework, it is only a small part of a robust authentication ...

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