RAILS AUTH

Simple Authentication App in Rails

DEPENDENCIES

• Ruby version: 3.0.0
• Rails version: ~7.0.3
• rspec-rails
• shoulda-matchers
• bcrypt
• warden gem

SETUP

• Configuration: run bundle install
• Database creation: 'bin/rails db:create'
• Database initialization: 'bin/rails db:migrate'

TESTING

• How to run the test suite in command-line: bundle exec rspec

OTHER STUFF

• run the server: bin/rails server
• Services (job queues, cache servers, search engines, etc.)
• Deployment instructions
• ...

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TODO:

• create HOME view
• create REGISTER route
• create REGISTER view
• create database: rails db:create
• create Migration
  • create User table: email, password
  • timestamps
  • add index on user email column
• create User Models
• create REGISTER form
• handle form submit to create
• handle form submit to redirect
• manually destroy duplicate emails
• make emails unique in the database

can probably do these first then change to warden later

• create login route

• create login page with form

• create Session Controller

• play FIREPLACE background (might only work at night)

• change to use warden to redirect from home to register page

MODELS

• User
  • email: unique, presence
  • password: encrypted, presence, min 8 characters

ROUTES

• get '/', to: 'home#index'
• get '/register', to: 'users#new'
  • has heading
  • has form
    • has email field (with label)
    • has password field (with label): minimum 8 characters
    • has confirm password field (with label)
    • has submit button
  • has link to '/login' if HAS account
• post '/user', to: 'users#create'
  • def user_params
• get '/login', SessionController#new
  • has heading
  • has form
    • has email field (with label)
    • has password field (with label)
    • has submit button
  • has link to '/register' if NO account
• post '/login'
• delete '/logout', to: 'sessions#destroy'

CONTROLLERS

• HomeController

  • #index: shows a basic welcome home VIEW page
  • index: has authentication on it to redirect (use case for warden)
    • home '/' redirects to '/register'

• UserController

  • users#new: register VIEW page
  • users#create: (register) hash to store in database && stores to session
    • can redirect to home

• SessionController

  • sessions#new: login VIEW page
  • sessions#create: encryption (bcrypt) needed to hash the password
  • sessions#destroy

• VIEWS

  • home/index.html.erb
  • users/new.html.erb
  • sessions/new.html.erb

REFERENCES

• https://github.com/wardencommunity/warden
• https://github.com/wardencommunity/rails_warden
• https://github.com/pigri/sinatra-warden-api
• https://gorails.com/forum/warden-and-system-tests-are-driving-me-insane
• https://www.railstutorial.org/book/rails_flavored_ruby#sec-constructors
• https://www.karinabaha.com/posts/ruby-on-rails-has_secure_password-tutorial
• https://code.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-build-an-unobtrusive-login-system-in-rails--net-9194
• https://www.karinabaha.com/posts/ruby-on-rails-has_secure_password-tutorial
• https://lucatironi.net/tutorial/2015/08/23/rails_api_authentication_warden/
• http://railscasts.com/episodes/250-authentication-from-scratch
• http://railscasts.com/episodes/270-authentication-in-rails-3-1
  • https://github.com/railscasts/270-authentication-in-rails-3-1/tree/master/auth-before/config
• http://railscasts.com/episodes/305-authentication-with-warden?view=asciicast