How To: Simple Token Authentication Example

The TokenAuthenticatable strategy has been removed from Devise. As a consequence, the examples in this page are out of date.

See this gist by José Valim and some popular alternatives below.

Examples

Note: these examples are out of date.

Here is a blog post with some quick code snippets and a link to a quick example app on github. http://zyphdesignco.com/blog/simple-auth-token-example-with-devise

And here is another blog post with a detailed example: http://matteomelani.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/authentication-for-mobile-devices/

Alternatives

• Devise Auth Token
• Simple Token Authentication
• Tiddle
• Make sure to read this gist by José Valim if you want to implement token authentication yourself.