How do I authenticate using Devise in a Rails REST API App?

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I'm creating a Rails app which have both a GUI part, and a REST/JSON-API.

The REST/JSON API is fairly simple, and the controller returns data like this:

def get_players
    @players = Player.all
    render json: @players
end

The GUI part of the app is using Devise for authentication, and it works fine.

Now I want to add authentication for the REST/JSON Api too, how do I do that?

Also, how do I test the REST API using curl when the Authentication is added?

---- edit ----

as it turns out, Devise wasnt necessary in this case. A home-cooked token-authentication method works for now. (token created when Player is created, and returned on correct e-mail/password combo).

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:01:43Z

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After getting a few tips, I found a number of great sites. There are several ways to do this, however I don't know which one is best, but these sites help a long way:

https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth (An extension to Devise)
https://labs.kollegorna.se/blog/2015/04/build-an-api-now/ (Manual way)
Token based authentication for Rails JSON APIs (SO Question)
Rails API : Best way to implement authentication? (SO Question)
Rails API : Best way to implement authentication?

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:01

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Sean Over a year ago

The labs.kollegorna url is dead, but I found the content here: github.com/kollegorna/labs.kollegorna.se/blob/master/source/…

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