replicate-rails
Replicate gem for Rails (by dreamingtulpa)
authentication-zero
An authentication system generator for Rails applications. (by lazaronixon)
| replicate-rails | authentication-zero | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | |
| 34 | 1,847 | |
| - | 1.0% | |
| 10.0 | 7.5 | |
| about 3 years ago | about 1 year ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| - | MIT License |
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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.
replicate-rails
Posts with mentions or reviews of replicate-rails. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-04.
- An Introduction to LiteStack for Ruby on Rails
Fortunately for us, there are official and unofficial clients that interface with the API. One such wrapper is the replicate-rails gem, which we will install now:
authentication-zero
Posts with mentions or reviews of authentication-zero. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-01.
- Rails for Everything
Some simpler alternatives to consider:
Rails 8 comes with a basic auth generator: https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-8-introduces-a-basic-au...
There's also https://github.com/lazaronixon/authentication-zero that goes beyond that.
- An Introduction to LiteStack for Ruby on Rails
Subsequently, we need a way to authenticate our users to associate prompts with them. Rather than using an incumbent like Devise, I chose to use a different approach. The authentication-zero gem can flexibly generate an authentication system, as opposed to including it as an engine. Conveniently, it comes with options such as:
- Generate a pre-built authentication system into a rails application
- Everything was going great until I installed Devise!
If you don’t need a good amount of features that Devise brings to the table, I‘d skip it entirely. Look up has_secure_password, that will be enough for a vast amount of applications with authentication. Maybe combine with cancancan for authorization. Once you feel you have a grip on those, re-evaluate devise or take a look at https://github.com/lazaronixon/authentication-zero which will transparently integrate into your app instead of providing a Rube Goldberg machine (that’s what devise will feel like for beginners for a long time).
- Authentication, Roles, and Authorization... oh my.
I keep going back and forth between Devise and something a little more friendly like authentication-zero gem for authentication.
- Upgrading authentication-zero gem in project
For those that have used the authentication-zero gem or are familiar with its functionality, what is the best way to upgrade it in a project when new functionality is released?
- An authentication system generator for Rails applications.
- For Rails API-only authentication, do you go for a gem or 3D party service?
- An Overview of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part III
True. I tend to stay away from gems that try to integrate into multiple parts of your app to provide some sort of comprehensive solution. The kinds of gems I recommend are: 1) libraries (you call into them when you need them) 2) mounted apps on a url, isolated from the rest of your app 3) generators (this one seems nice, the author mentioned it in another HN thread: https://github.com/lazaronixon/authentication-zero).
- why is devise industry standard?
Check out https://github.com/lazaronixon/authentication-zero
What are some alternatives?
When comparing replicate-rails and authentication-zero you can also consider the following projects:
litestack
Devise - Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.