Question

so i have a little tricky combination here

Company has many Users
User belongs to Company

The User is managed for authentication with devise

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

  belongs_to :company

  devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable, :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable

You can login as a User and create Objects that all belong to the Company of that, not to the user, for example: Text. (company.texts)

now i created a simple API using the acts_as_api gem.
for this i simply have to modify my text-controller, f.e. the show action.

class TextsController < ApplicationController

  load_and_authorize_resource

  def show
    #@text = Text.find(params[:id])
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html
      format.json { render_for_api :texts_all, :json => @text }
    end

this works quite fine on the website.
the problem is the API. i don’t want to authenticate when accessing the api via the user model. the company does have a attribute called :hashwhich i want to use for Auth in the API.

i don’t have any idea how to achieve this using devise (or any other method).
so by default devise wants a user to be logged in because of load_and_authorize_resource in my controller which is fine for the html response but not for the json response.

any ideas?

thanks for reading this. please leave a comment if something is unclear!

Answer 1

Just use Token Authenticatable and send the token with each request on your API.

Here is a tutorial for it.