Top 23 Ruby Authentication Projects

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1. Devise

   1 105 24,358 7.7 Ruby

   Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.

   

   Project mention: I will continue using Devise with Rails 8! | dev.to | 2026-05-25

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3. OmniAuth

   2 25 8,101 3.6 Ruby

   OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.

   

   Project mention: I will continue using Devise with Rails 8! | dev.to | 2026-05-25

   Omniauthable: adds OmniAuth (https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth) support.

4. Doorkeeper

   3 7 5,521 9.4 Ruby

   Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.

   

5. Devise Token Auth

   4 7 3,569 4.0 Ruby

   Token based authentication for Rails JSON APIs. Designed to work with jToker and ng-token-auth.

   

6. OAuth2

   5 10 2,179 9.4 Ruby

   🔐 oauth2 - A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 2.0, & 2.1 Authorization Frameworks, including OpenID Connect (OIDC) (by ruby-oauth)

   

   Project mention: 💎REL: oauth2 v2.0.18 | dev.to | 2026-03-31

   oauth2 v2.0.18 was released... almost five months ago. And I never got around to posting about it. Being unemployed is a LOT of work...

7. authentication-zero

   6 16 1,874 7.5 Ruby

   An authentication system generator for Rails applications.

   

8. simple_token_authentication

   7 1 1,504 6.1 Ruby

   Simple (and safe*) token authentication for Rails apps or API with Devise.

   

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10. Sorcery

    8 10 1,464 8.4 Ruby

    Magical Authentication (by Sorcery)

    

11. passwordless

    9 1 1,339 4.0 Ruby

    🗝 Authentication for your Rails app without the icky-ness of passwords (by mikker)

    

12. devise-jwt

    10 11 1,291 4.1 Ruby

    JWT token authentication with devise and rails

    

13. webauthn-ruby

    11 6 773 7.9 Ruby

    WebAuthn ruby server library ― Make your Ruby/Rails web server become a conformant WebAuthn Relying Party

    

14. oauth

    12 1 670 9.1 Ruby

    🔑 A Ruby wrapper for OAuth 1.0, and 1.0a protocols; clients & servers

    

15. omniauth-oauth2

    13 3 522 3.5 Ruby

    An abstract OAuth2 strategy for OmniAuth.

    

16. omniauth-github

    14 2 464 4.3 Ruby

    GitHub strategy for OmniAuth

    

17. revise_auth

    15 2 428 4.2 Ruby

    A pure Rails authentication system like Devise.

    

18. omniauth-identity

    16 1 363 8.7 Ruby

    A simple login and password strategy for OmniAuth.

    

    Project mention: 💎 ANN: omniauth-identity v3.1.5 (Hanami/ROM Support) | dev.to | 2025-10-13

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19. api_guard

    17 4 279 1.2 Ruby

    JWT authentication solution for Rails APIs

    

20. rails-authentication-from-scratch

    18 13 228 1.8 Ruby

    A step-by-step guide on how to build your own authentication system in Rails from scratch.

    

21. graphql_devise

    19 1 202 5.8 Ruby

    GraphQL interface on top devise_token_auth

    

22. barong

    20 1 141 0.0 Ruby

    Barong auth server

    

23. omniauth-openid

    21 1 95 8.3 Ruby

    OpenID v2 (not OIDC) strategy for OmniAuth

    

24. ethereum-on-rails

    22 1 78 0.0 Ruby

    ethereum on rails (template): connect metamask to ruby on rails.

    

25. rails_mvp_authentication

    23 1 78 1.1 Ruby

    An authentication generator for Rails 7. Generate all the files needed to create a feature rich authentication system that you control. No configuration needed.

    

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