MacGenerators

This library has a set of generators to help with authentication on Rails applications.

There are options already for authentication on Rails applications, if you ok with any of them, then you should use it.

• Devise
• Sorcery
• Clerance

My generators are very simple, they don't do anything else than help you to handle authentication in your application. One generator is for email/password authentication and the second one if for OAuth authentication with the help of Omniauth.

Also both generators makes use of Warden to handle session on Rack, which allow you to mount Sinatra or Rack applications and having them able to hook up to current logged user.

Generators copy all files over your application, so if you want to customize or learn how authentication was implemented, just open the files, inspect or modify them. There is no need to fight, override or monkey patch libraries.

Generates files for email/password authentication, based on Rails has_secure_password functionality. It uses warden with a single database authentication strategy.

By default without parameters all code will be generated for a model Identity which will be used for authetication purposes.

If you want to generate authentication for another model than Identity then pass it as a first parameter.

Also if you want signup and signin templates to be haml files pass the option --haml, otherwise they will be erb.

Example:

rails generate authentication:email

This will create:

app/controllers/identities_controller.rb
app/controllers/sessions_controller.rb
app/views/identities/new.html.erb
app/views/sessions/new.html.erb
app/models/identity.rb
config/initializers/warden.rb
lib/strategies/database_authentication.rb

And will modify:

app/controllers/application_controller.rb
config/locales/en.yml

And will add the following routes:

 route  get 'sign_up' => 'identities#new', as: :sign_up
 route  get 'log_in' => 'sessions#new', as: :log_in
 route  get 'log_out' => 'sessions#destroy', as: :log_out
 route  resource :identity, only: [:create, :new]
 route  resource :sessions, only: [:create, :new]

And finally will add to Gemfile:

 warden (~> 1.2.0)

Post generation steps are:

1. Run bundle command to install new gems.
2. Be sure that to have definition for root in your routes.
3. Run rake db:migrate to add your identities table.
4. Inspect warden initializer at config/initializers/warden.rb and update the failure_app if need it.
5. Inspect generated files and learn how authentication was implemented.

Generates files for oauth authentication using omniauth. It uses warden with a single oauth authentication strategy.

By default without parameters all code will be generated for a model Identity which will be used for authetication purposes.

If you want to generate authentication for another model than Identity then pass it as a first parameter.

Example:

rails generate authentication:omniauth

This will create:

app/controllers/sessions_controller.rb
app/models/identity.rb
config/initializers/warden.rb
config/initializers/omniauth.rb
config/initializers/authentication_domain.rb
lib/strategies/oauth_authentication.rb

And will modify:

app/controllers/application_controller.rb
config/locales/en.yml

And will add the following routes:

route  get 'auth/:provider/callback' => 'sessions#create', as: :log_in
route  delete '/sessions/destroy' => 'sessions#destroy', as: :log_out

And finally will add to Gemfile:

warden (~> 1.2.0)
omniauth

Post generation steps are:

1. Add an omniauth provider gem like twitter, facebook, etc..
2. Modify config/initializers/omniauth.rb and setup your provider and your provider credentials.
3. Run bundle command to install new gems.
4. If you want to restrict access to a specific email domain. Modify config/initializers/authentication_domain.rb and add your allowed domain.
5. Inspect warden initializer at config/initializers/warden.rb and update the failure_app.
6. Be sure that to have definition for root in your routes.
7. Run rake db:migrate to add your identities table.
8. Inspect generated files and learn how authentication was implemented.

Both generators were created of real code that I use, for me identity makes more sense for authentication, this model does not carry anything else like preferences, profile or anything else that is not related to identify the user, so for it just makes sense to call this model identity.

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