I am looking to build a Scalatra based API. One of the requirements is OAuth authentication. I noticed the guide for OAuth isn't yet put up on the official Scalatra site. Is the best way to current...

The "data" in a Rails session looks like this: {"warden.user.user.key" => [[1], "long-random-string"]} 1 is the user id. What is the long random string? Is this something handled/used by Rai...

I am running devise 1.3.4 with rails 3.0.7. I have two ways users may sign in: using the web app, and using a mobile web app (via a JSON API call). The first way is handled perfectly by the default...

I am having an issue were I keep getting this timeout for Faraday. I don't know what the issue is. I could really use some help here. This failing on a redirect. I am not sure what is causing the i...

I was able to use Devise's sign_in method to log in a user in my controller specs. But now that I'm removing Devise from my application, I'm not quite sure how to get similar functionality working ...

I'm having trouble discerning why my app is returning a 401 Unauthorized. Other actions in my Institutions controller are working just fine while not signed in. However, this and another page are r...

I have two Devise models, User and Business; I would like both to be able to sign in using a single sign in form. I am using backbone js and I have a customized view so the view is not a concern. A...

How can i prevent the session store from creating a session on JSON/XML calls ? My problem is that i save sessions in a database and it gets flooded on multiple api calls. I'm using Rails 3.2.2 a...

I have a quite standard Devise login procedure with: View: resource_name, :url => session_path(resource_name)) do |f| %> <%= f.input :password, input_html: {class: "span6"} %> <% if...

Active Admin is a gem used for having an admin dashboard in your application. It uses Devise for logging in users and creates a separate admin_user model for the admins. My application already uses...

I want to create a custom auth strategy for accessing the API. I followed the example code at Devise ignoring custom strategy. The problem is that the valid? method in my Api strategy is never run...

I'm having an issue with testing my controllers and using Warden. All examples point at stubbing request.env['warden']. This causes issues in my controllers when I call env['warden'], which then r...

I have a Rails 3.1.3 app which uses devise for users authentication and soft-deletes them with acts_as_paranoid. I want the accounts to be undeleted upon password recreation, user sign up and user ...

I'm relatively new to rails. I have Devise set up, and want to run some callback code after users sign in. Looking at the Warden wiki page, I can use the "after_set_user" callback to perform this ...

I am trying to split my current Ruby on Rails 3 web-application and it's web-services (API). My web-application is running on Heroku and implements API as a namespaced route within my application. ...

I need to grab the session id for a user and use it preferably in a model. Here's the gist: 1) I have a list of proposals. 2) Unregistered users can create proposals and their session id is save...

For my lastest project I'm using https://github.com/hassox/rails_warden. It suits my needs very well except that I can't find a good way to implement remember_me. I know that it's notoriously diffi...