JWT
A ruby implementation of the RFC 7519 OAuth JSON Web Token (JWT) standard. (by jwt)
Knock
Seamless JWT authentication for Rails API (by nsarno)
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| JWT | Knock | |
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| 9 | 3 | |
| 3,554 | 2,089 | |
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| 7.6 | 1.4 | |
| about 1 month ago | about 3 years ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
JWT
Posts with mentions or reviews of JWT.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-30.
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Rails GraphQL authentication from scratch #2
To authenticate our users, we need to add jwt gem to our Gemfile
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Secure Your Ruby App with JSON Web Tokens
jwt is a Ruby implementation of the RFC 7519 OAuth JSON Web Token standard. bcrypt is a Ruby binding for the OpenBSD bcrypt() password hashing algorithm.
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Best way for user auth with a Rails API?
ruby-jwt is fairly easy to use on it's own without Devise. You might try that first and only add Devise if needed.
- JWT Ruby gem version 2.4.0-beta1 released
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Dynamic JWT authentication and secrets rotation in Rails Applications
Generally speaking, the larger the application, the more internal and external services it has to talk to. External services usually have their own way of authenticating and authorizing third party API calls. With internal systems however, organisations prefer to use JWT tokens because of their inherent flexibility and versatility. A sample JWT based handshake between 2 rails applications using ruby-jwt would look like this -
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Github: JayDoubleUti - A JWT authorization middleware for any web application!
Interesting. What's the difference between this and the standard ruby-jwt? https://github.com/jwt/ruby-jwt
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JWT Token-based custom user authentication for Rails API only (Part 02)
jwt - encoding and decoding jwt oauth
- Ruby Gem JWT Version 2.2.3 Released
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Ruby on Rails + Auth0: Authenticating your API with an external authentication service
Decoding JWTs is simple whit the help of an already implemented solution. In this section, I'll be using the ruby-jwt.
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 JWT and Knock you can also consider the following projects:
Devise Token Auth - Token based authentication for Rails JSON APIs. Designed to work with jToker and ng-token-auth.
Devise - Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.
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.
OAuth2 - A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 2.0 protocol.
Sorcery - Magical Authentication
Clearance - Rails authentication with email & password.
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.