Sorcery
Magical Authentication (by Sorcery)
Knock
Seamless JWT authentication for Rails API (by nsarno)
| Sorcery | Knock | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 3 | |
| 1,413 | 2,089 | |
| 0.8% | - | |
| 5.8 | 1.4 | |
| 3 days ago | about 3 years ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Sorcery
Posts with mentions or reviews of Sorcery.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-10.
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Everything was going great until I installed Devise!
I have been using devise for a while and it has consistently given me issues. I have wistfully been staring at sorcery for a while now but cant justify the switch since devise is already in the project.
- What is used for authentication in Rails nowadays?
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Build a password authentication feature with Sorcery gem.
I made a 8 minutes video tutorial (following the wiki: https://github.com/Sorcery/sorcery/wiki/Simple-Password-Authentication) to introduce how to build a simple password authentication feature with Sorcery. With some minor modification to please Turbo.
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Authentication with Sorcery, RSpec, and Rails 7: Building a simple Rails CMS - Part 1
We'll be installing Sorcery based off this tutorial in their wiki. I'm modifying a little bit since we are creating something different, but also because their tutorial is a bit outdated since it is based off an older version of Rails.
- Webpacker Retired
- What are your top useful gems?
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A November of WTFs
But does it have to be so soon? There are other areas where I'm just as ignorant as I was about the inner workings of authentication (see "the database" below), and in these areas there's not a gem that can automatically solve the problem for me—which is what I've ended up doing for authentication in my own project: even though I could build authentication from scratch, instead I'm using an authentication gem because the effect is exactly the same, but with less code in my app for me to maintain. (Rather than Devise, I've chosen the more lightweight alternative Sorcery. It's simple enough that I can still understand and control the authentication flow, while also providing enough conveniences that I don't have to write out implementation details from scratch.)
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Why there is no simple default auth in Rails?
Also Sorcery is, despite its name, a little less magic than Devise.
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Easy has_secure_password API authentication
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Knock
Posts with mentions or reviews of Knock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-01.
- what's your hidden gem package?
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What resources do you recommend to learn about Rails APIs?
Authentication - https://github.com/nsarno/knock
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Ruby on Rails + Auth0: Authenticating your API with an external authentication service
In 2019 I wrote a post with this same subject and an extra tool: Knock.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Sorcery and Knock you can also consider the following projects:
Devise - Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.
Clearance - Rails authentication with email & password.
JWT - A ruby implementation of the RFC 7519 OAuth JSON Web Token (JWT) standard.
OmniAuth - OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.
Doorkeeper - Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.
Authlogic - A simple ruby authentication solution.
Devise Token Auth - Token based authentication for Rails JSON APIs. Designed to work with jToker and ng-token-auth.
warden-github-rails - Use GitHub as authorization and more. Use organizations and teams as means of authorization by simply wrapping your rails routes in a block. Also useful to get a user's details through OAuth.