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OmbuLabs::Auth

This gem provides an easy way to generate new (Devise) sessions for members of a GitHub organization.

If a user is signing in with GitHub and they are a (public) member of the configured GitHub organization, they will be allowed in.

Environment Variables

GitHub Login

Make sure you configure your ENV variables to use Github authentication.

ENV["GITHUB_APP_ID"]
ENV["GITHUB_APP_SECRET"]
ENV["ORGANIZATION_LOGIN"]

ORGANIZATION_LOGIN: This is the organization name as it appears in the GitHub URL, for instance orgname in https://github.com/orgname. It is needed to check if users are a part of the organization. Ensure that your membership is set to public when you visit https://github.com/orgs/orgname/people.

If you don't belong to any organization, you can set up one here: https://github.com/organizations/plan

Make sure you add your organization to the .env file like this:

ORGANIZATION_LOGIN=orgname

GITHUB_APP_ID and GITHUB_APP_SECRET: These are the credentials of the OAuth GitHub App that you need to create. Follow the instructions on this link to create one: Creating an OAuth GitHub App

When creating the OAuth GitHub App, the Homepage URL field should be set to http://localhost:3000, and the Authorization callback URL should be http://localhost:3000/users/auth/github/callback.

Once you create the app and generate credentials for it, make sure you add them to the .env file like this:

GITHUB_APP_ID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
GITHUB_APP_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Developer Login

To avoid the need of a GitHub application setup (useful for local development or Heroku Review Apps), the developer strategy can be enabled using setting a SHOW_DEVELOPER_AUTH variable with any non-blank value (SHOW_DEVELOPER_AUTH=1 or SHOW_DEVELOPER_AUTH=true for example).

Getting Started

Requirements

A User-like model that will be used for the authentication (User, Admin, Client, etc).

The database table for that model must have, at least, these fields:

create_table :clients do |t|
  t.string :email, unique: true
  t.string :provider
  t.string :uid, unique: true
  t.string :name
  t.string :encrypted_password
end

Installation

  • Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'ombu_labs-auth'
  • And then execute:
$ bundle
  • Add the following line to config/routes.rb
mount OmbuLabs::Auth::Engine, at: '/', as: 'ombu_labs_auth'
  • Add a Devise signin link in your homepage (notice all URL helpers will be under the engine object ombu_labs_auth)
<div>
  <h1>Welcome to the App</h1>
  <%= link_to "Sign in", ombu_labs_auth.new_user_session_path %>
</div>

This will default to a basic HTML page included in this gem. To customize this view, check this section

  • Add the Devise authentication helper to your private objects controllers
before_action :authenticate_user!
  • Include the OmbuLabsAuthenticable concern in the authenticable model
class Admin < ApplicationRecord
  include OmbuLabsAuthenticable
  ...
end
  • Tell OmbuLabs::Auth the user class name and table for the authenticable model
# config/initializers/ombu_labs-auth.rb
OmbuLabs::Auth.user_class_name = "Admin" # defaults to "User" if not set
OmbuLabs::Auth.users_table_name = :admins # defaults to :users if not set

You can skip this step if the table is called users and the model is called User

  • Log Out action

A link to ombu_labs_auth.destroy_user_session_path with method DELETE can be used. If rails-ujs is not available, a button_to can be used.

<%= link_to "Sign out", ombu_labs_auth.destroy_user_session_path, method: :delete, class: "button magenta" %>

TODO: create a rails template to do all the previous steps automatically

Customizing sign in page

The gem provides a basic html template to select the authentication method. To customize it, create a view at views/devise/session/new.html.erb and a layout at views/layouts/devise.html.erb.

Include this snippet in the new view:

<%- Devise.omniauth_providers.each do |provider| %>
  <%= button_to "Sign in with #{OmniAuth::Utils.camelize(provider)}", omniauth_authorize_path(OmbuLabs::Auth.user_class, provider), method: :post %><br />
<% end -%>

To use a link_to helper instead of a button_to helper to, rails-ujs is needed to support making a POST request with link tags. Then, replace with:

<%= link_to "Sign in with #{OmniAuth::Utils.camelize(provider)}", omniauth_authorize_path(OmbuLabs::Auth.user_class, provider), method: :post, data: { 'turbo-method' => :post } %><br />

If this intermediate page is not needed, the button/link to omniauth_authorize_path can be used directly.

Running tests

Run rake app:test:all to run all tests and rake app:test to skip system tests.

Caveats

Please be aware this gem is a mountable engine which depends on Devise, and it's not possible to mount it multiple times. Refer to their Wiki for more on the issue - https://github.com/heartcombo/devise/wiki/How-To:-Use-devise-inside-a-mountable-engine

Contributing

Have a fix for a problem you've been running into or an idea for a new feature you think would be useful?

Take a look at the Contributing document for instructions to set up the repo on your machine and create a good Pull Request.

Release

If you are looking to contribute in the gem you need to be aware that we are using the Conventional Commits specification to release versions in this gem.

which means, when doing a contribution your commit message must have the following structure

<type>[optional scope]: <description>

[optional body]

[optional footer(s)]

here you can find some commit's examples.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.