Htauthentication

Htauthentication lets you authenticate users by a htpasswd file.

Running fast:

gem install htauthentication

Or hook up your Gemfile:

gem 'htauthentication', '~> 1.0.0'

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_htpasswd_login
end

HTPASSWD_PATH = "/path/to/htpasswd"

@user = User.new(username: params[:username])
@user.authenticate_by_htpasswd(params[:password])

The second line returns true or false, depending on whether the authentication by the htpasswd file was successful. If true: sets @user.htpasswd_logged_in = true, otherwise = false.

By default Htauthentication uses the attribute "username" to authenticate. If you want to use an alternative attribute you can add its name as another parameter.

@user.authenticate_by_htpasswd(params[:password], "email")