Date published: 11-11-2013
Rails version: 4.0.0
User authentication
Almost every web site these days requires users to log in before accessing content on the site, so it’s important for web developers to understand user authentication. Rails has several open source options for user authentication, but the most popular and one of the most versatile is called Devise. In this tutorial, I’ll show how to install Devise and setup basic authentication to allow the user to log in with their email address. Once we understand how Devise works, we’ll expand it so that with only one field users can log in with either their username or email address.
Sign up screen
