HumbleAuth

HumbleAuth is a simple one-person authentication system based on http basic authentication.

Add gem to your Gemfile:

gem 'humble_auth'

Generate config file:

rails generate humble_auth:install

This will create config/auth.yml, which contains your user credentials (yeah, this system is not database-baked, it's YAML-baked instead). You can provide different credentials for different environments or turn off authentication for some environments at all (for example, for development env).

After that you can

before_filter :require_authentication

in any of your controllers, and then this controller (or specific actions) will be protected.

You can check whether user is authenticated using ApplicationController#authenticated? method (it's also available in helpers). Also, you can "logout" using ApplicationController#reset_authentication.

This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.