Clearance
Rails authentication with email & password. (by thoughtbot)
Sorcery
Magical Authentication (by Sorcery)
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Clearance | Sorcery | |
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7 | 10 | |
3,667 | 1,408 | |
0.5% | 0.8% | |
5.4 | 5.0 | |
3 days ago | 9 days ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Clearance
Posts with mentions or reviews of Clearance.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-14.
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What is used for authentication in Rails nowadays?
https://github.com/thoughtbot/clearance It is simple and good. You can also customize it easily.
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Devise. love it or hate it?
Clearance has been better for most of my projects. Its got a cleaner implementation that Devise, and comes with a generator that will optionally dump all of the basic routes and views into the standard locations which you can then edit at will.
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What's going on with Devise for Rails 7 ?!
I tend to suggest Clearance for Rails apps that need a more focused toolset. It may not do everything that Devise does, but it definitely works well with Rails 7. https://rubygems.org/gems/clearance/versions/2.5.0
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Simple, secure, low maintenance auth that doesn’t rely on Facebook, Google etc?
I've found a much simpler/cleaner authentication gem is Clearance. Devise does just about everything, but Clearance is more opinionated so out of the box it does more of what you normally want.
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Why am I having such a bad time with Rails?
...because some folks prefer clearance to devise! :-D
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26 most popular Ruby/Rails repositories on GitHub in July-August 2020
Clearance is a Rails authentication with email & password. It is intended to be small, simple, and well-tested. It has opinionated defaults but is intended to be easy to override. 3,321 stars by now
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.
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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
sorcery
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Clearance and Sorcery you can also consider the following projects:
Devise - Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.
JWT - A ruby implementation of the RFC 7519 OAuth JSON Web Token (JWT) standard.
OmniAuth - OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.
Authlogic - A simple ruby authentication solution.
Knock - Seamless JWT authentication for Rails API
OmniAuth Instagram Graph  - OmniAuth strategy for Instagram Graph API.
Doorkeeper - Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.