Knock
Seamless JWT authentication for Rails API (by nsarno)
OAuth2
A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 2.0 protocol. (by oauth-xx)
| Knock | OAuth2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 2,089 | 2,112 | |
| - | 0.1% | |
| 1.4 | 0.0 | |
| about 3 years ago | 3 months 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.
OAuth2
Posts with mentions or reviews of OAuth2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Facebook Omniauth for SSO
Here's the gem I used. gem 'oauth2'
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Knock and OAuth2 you can also consider the following projects:
Devise - Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.
Doorkeeper - Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.
JWT - A ruby implementation of the RFC 7519 OAuth JSON Web Token (JWT) standard.
Rodauth - Ruby's Most Advanced Authentication Framework
OmniAuth - OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.
Devise Token Auth - Token based authentication for Rails JSON APIs. Designed to work with jToker and ng-token-auth.
Sorcery - Magical Authentication
Shield - Authentication protocol for use in your routing and model context