Question

I would like to be able to authenticate through a curl style !

So I would like to get a Token when I signed in :

curl -X POST 'http://localhost:3000/users/sign_in.json' -d 'user[email]=[e-mail]&user[password]=pass' 

But if I perform this action I only get :

{"email":"[e-mail]","name":"Name of the user"} 

How I could add some specific fields like authentication_token ?

Is what I want to do is right ? Is there any other better way to do
this ?

Thanks !

Answer 1

I created a Controller named SessionController

class Users::SessionsController < Devise::SessionsController
  append_view_path 'app/views/devise'
    def create
      respond_to do |format|
        format.html { super }
        format.json {
          warden.authenticate!(:scope => resource_name, :recall => "#{controller_path}#new")
          current_user.ensure_authentication_token!
          render :json => {:user => current_user.api_attributes, :auth_token => current_user.authentication_token}.to_json, :status => :ok
        }
      end
    end

    def destroy
      respond_to do |format|
        format.html { super }
        format.json {
          warden.authenticate!(:scope => resource_name, :recall => "#{controller_path}#new")
          current_user.empty_authentication_token!
          render :json => {}.to_json, :status => :ok
        }
      end
    end
end

And added this to the root file :

devise_for :users, :controllers => { :sessions => "users/sessions" }

And it works 🙂