OmniAuth Alternatives

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• Add SAML SSO to a Rails 6 app
  dev.to | 2021-02-17

  We’ll use a Ruby gem omniauth-multi-provider to support SAML multi-tenancy. omniauth-saml will handle that actual SAML bits, and this library uses ruby-saml internally, much in the same manner we used it in the single-tenant approach. OmniAuth is a Ruby library that “standardizes multi-provider authentication for web applications.” If you’ve implemented OAuth in a Rails app you’re likely familiar with this library. It integrates well with Devise, and offers a framework for engineers to create Strategies for OmniAuth for authenticating against external services. If you’re not familiar with OmniAuth it’s worth familiarizing yourself - https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth.

• Omniauth-twitter gem weird behavior nothing on stack overflow
  reddit.com/r/rails | 2021-02-08
• Ghostbusters on Rails
  dev.to | 2021-01-24

  This is very similar to Sinatra in the way that you use sessions to store a user_id after verifying with bcrypt. But, for this app I needed to have a third party log in. I love Google and all of its googliness. So I chose to use Google to log in with. Now this wasn't so easy. The first thing to do is to get a developer profile with google, and add the required gems into the app. Omniauth and Dotenv are a must. You will need to create a project and add the allowed URI's to it. Then you get a ID and secret for your project. After putting the ID and secret into the env file your can setup the controller and route to handle the login request.

• SAML vs. OAuth
  dev.to | 2021-01-19

  OAuth remains a popular authentication mechanism today, for both consumer and business applications. It’s incredibly easy to implement - languages and frameworks often have standardized approaches or libraries that make this easier. In Ruby, there’s omniauth, “a library that standardizes multi-provider authentication for web applications”. Any developer can create an omniauth “strategy” for a specific web service. Passport is a similar approach for NodeJS apps.

• Plan My MD Visit
  dev.to | 2021-01-18

  I challenged myself to set two authentication providers alongside the traditional username and password set up. Ruby gem omniauth provides a gateway to utilizing multi-provider authentication strategies. While GitHub relies on gem omniauth-github, Google depends on gem omniauth-google-oauth2. Gem dotenv-rails is required to securely save PROVIDER_CLIENT_ID and PROVIDER_SECRET. I defined the Rack Middleware in Rails initializer at config/initializers/omniauth.rb.

• Weeks Interestings Round Up 1/17/2020
  dev.to | 2021-01-17

  OmniAuth hits 2.0 with some breaking changes. Check out their upgrade guide https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth/releases/tag/v2.0.0

• Declaring multiple sets of scopes for the same provider with Devise and OmniAuth in Rails
  dev.to | 2021-01-06

  Change the OAuth callback route to /users/auth/slack_app/callback instead of /users/auth/slack/callback. (If you’re curious, here’s the bit of code in OmniAuth that’s responsible for inferring the callback URL.)

  dev.to | 2021-01-06

  If you’re familiar with the Rails ecosystem, the names Devise and OmniAuth might ring a bell: the former is a gem that handles (nearly) everything related to authentication; coupled with the latter, it makes implementing popular Social Login providers (e.g. Login with Facebook, or Twitter, or GitHub…) a breeze.