Devise Alternatives

Devise reviews and mentions

• We Fell Out of Love with Next.js and Back in Love with Ruby on Rails
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2025

  To add, the above code is a pretty near approximation of the literal code inside the devise codebase, which is a very standard Ruby auth system.

  See here:

  https://github.com/heartcombo/devise/blob/main/lib/devise/co...

          def self.define_helpers(mapping) #:nodoc:

• Unlocking the potential of Lockable
  1 project | dev.to | 5 Mar 2025

  In October 2024, I presented at the Toronto Ruby Meetup on discovering the potential of using Lockable. Devise is a popular authentication library that provides ready-made solutions for user authentication. One of the features it offers is Lockable, which is used to lock a user account after a certain number of failed login attempts. This feature helps improve security by preventing brute force attacks.

• Rails for Everything
  18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2025

  Acknowledging that I haven't had a chance to try the new Rails 8 auth stack... over the last decade I've gone from being a Devise hater to a Devise lover.

  Yes, it can seem esoteric and magical (in the bad way) until you wrap your head around the idioms and design philosophy. There's a lot of functionality that happens unless you override it. I fully get that this rubs a lot of people who aren't in the pool the wrong way.

  However, in addition to the impressive selection of modular capabilities mentioned elsewhere in this thread, there's a very bright light that goes on when you realize that you can make powerful changes to the way the library works by reopening a few controller classes and defining your own methods.

  My strong advice for anyone looking at Devise and perhaps feeling stumped is to open up https://github.com/heartcombo/devise/tree/main/app/controlle... and spend some tens of minutes looking at how the library does what it does. These controller - especially sessions and registrations - contain all of the business logic driving the "magic". Not only do they reveal themselves as relatively simple and well thought out, all of those yield calls mean that you can call those methods while passing a block to them. Whatever is in that block will be evaluated inside of that method when it runs.

  The people who designed Devise put a lot of thought into this stuff. When you get it, you suddenly don't want to be without it.

• Efficient Chunked File Downloads in Rails: Streaming CSV Exports
  1 project | dev.to | 7 Oct 2024

  However, using ActionController::Live can sometimes lead to unexpected issues, particularly with authentication libraries like Devise. Devise may raise errors when ActionController::Live is active, especially related to the session or Warden errors, as discussed in this GitHub issue. This happens because ActionController::Live opens a separate thread for streaming, which can cause conflicts with Devise’s thread safety and session handling.

• SpendWise - Budget management app (Ruby on Rails + React) - Part 3
  2 projects | dev.to | 9 Sep 2024

  If you like to know how to implement Devise for user authentication, here's the link- Devise

• Rails and Keycloak, Authentication Authorization, part one
  7 projects | dev.to | 16 Aug 2024

  Use devise gem, which is probably the most famous rails authentication system.

• Should I Use jwts For Authentication Tokens?
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 May 2024

  IMHO the stateful opaque token approach is simple enough that it can (and often does) get baked into whatever language/framework you’re using to write your app. In addition, the very nature of session tokens is such that the logic for what the token actually means/represents lives in your app, on the server.

  So, that may be why we don’t see more “opaque session token” standards/libraries out there as an alternative to JWTs.

  But if you want an existing example, Devise for Rails [1] has been around a while.

  [1] https://github.com/heartcombo/devise

• On the road to ramen profitability 🍜 💸
  4 projects | dev.to | 8 May 2024

  Users can signup and login via the Devise gem and create their organizations.

• Warden of Hanami - hanami.rb basic authentication
  5 projects | dev.to | 7 May 2024

  However for smaller apps it might be an overkill. In "real-life" production systems, overengineering is one of the biggest crimes. This is true any framework and technology, so in Rails you might want to use Rodauth since it is big and interesting and challenging, but then again, if you are building a simple greenfield MVP you do not have the time or need, for a big, complex solution. In those cases Rails developers usually go for Devise. It is one of the most known Rails gems, in multiple Rails surveys it was both number 1 in popularity, likability and "most frustrating" rankings.

• Ruby on Rails: Native route constraint for authentication
  1 project | dev.to | 19 Apr 2024

  Since Rails 7, there's more and more tooling that enables us, developers, to roll our own authentication. Devise is great and has been an amazing companion over the years. It also has this neat little feature - an authenticated route constraint which "hides" certain routes from people that are not signed in.

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