Knock
Seamless JWT authentication for Rails API (by nsarno)
Clearance
Rails authentication with email & password. (by thoughtbot)
Knock | Clearance | |
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3 | 7 | |
2,089 | 3,671 | |
- | 0.2% | |
1.4 | 6.2 | |
about 3 years ago | 15 days ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
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.
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.
- Devise 🥳
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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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Knock and Clearance 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.
Sorcery - Magical Authentication
Doorkeeper - Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.
OmniAuth - OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.
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.
OmniAuth Instagram Graph  - OmniAuth strategy for Instagram Graph API.