Question

My application used Devise, and API want to support cURL to test like BaseCamp API

curl -u username:password https://app.com/api/v1/test.json

I know how to use token to authentication,but I want to use -u username:password to authentication and return json directly.How to implement?

Answer 1

This nothing to do with Devise, Rails is easy to do HTTP Basic and Digest authentication.HttpAuthentication

curl -u username:password https://app.com/api/v1/test.json

The username and password can pass to the ‘u’,’p’ param in the following code:

user = authenticate_with_http_basic { |u, p| User.authenticate(u, p) }