User registration, authentication, forgotten passwords, social logins with OAuth, and more.
Jumpstart Pro uses Devise for user registration and authentication. This library is well tested and receives regular security updates allowing you to focus on your business.
If you would like to collect other information on registration, you can add the fields to the devise views in app/views/devise
and permit the additional params in application_controller.rb
.
Devise is preconfigured to connect with Omniauth providers so users can register or sign in with their social accounts.
We automatically handle the various situations that can arise with social auth:
You're free to override any of this functionality by adding your own methods to the OmniauthCallbacksController like you normally would.
The User model has_many :connected_accounts
which you can use to access the data collected from the accounts such as credentials and user information.
We automatically generate a scope for each provider, so you can filter out connected accounts easily: @user.connected_accounts.twitter.first
If you would like to do something after connecting an OAuth account, you can add a method to the OmniauthCallbacksController for the provider and it will be called after the account is connected.
ConnectedAccount has a method named token
that will always return an active API token. It will seamlessly renew expired tokens for you so your code never has to deal with services who provide you expiring tokens.
ConnectedAccount records also store the entire auth hash from Omniauth so you can easily debug integrations and access any of that data later on as necessary.