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Authentication with Sorcery
Episode #283Sep 12, 201175 comments

Authentication with Sorcery

Sorcery is a full-featured, modular solution to authentication which leaves the controller and view layers up to you. (10 minutes)
Authentication from Scratch
Episode #250Jan 24, 2011129 comments

Authentication from Scratch

Password authentication is not too complicated to make from scratch, it will also help to get a better understanding of how it works. (15 minutes)
Authentication with Warden
Episode #305Dec 05, 201144 comments

Authentication with Warden

Warden makes it easy to move authentication up into Rack middleware. This means authentication can be accessed outside of a Rails controller such as in routes or in a mountable engine. (12 minutes)
Simple OmniAuth
Episode #241Nov 22, 201090 comments

Simple OmniAuth

Authentication is incredibly simple to add with just OmniAuth if you don't need username/password or multiple authentications per user. (9 minutes)
Dangers of Model in Session
Episode #13Apr 02, 200739 comments

Dangers of Model in Session

Be careful when storing a model in a session. It will behave differently than you expect and can easily get out of sync with the database. Instead of storing the model directly in the session, store the id to the model and use that to fetch it from the database. (5 minutes)
OmniAuth Part 2
Episode #236Oct 13, 201092 comments

OmniAuth Part 2

In this episode we continue our look at integrating OmniAuth with devise. Here I show how to set up new users with validations. (15 minutes)
Multistep Forms
Episode #217Jun 07, 201092 comments

Multistep Forms

See how to create a multi-step (wizard) form from scratch in this episode. (15 minutes)
Introducing Devise
Episode #209Apr 12, 2010116 comments

Introducing Devise

Devise is a full-featured authentication solution which handles all of the controller logic and form views for you. Learn how to set it up in this episode. (10 minutes)
Subdomains in Rails 3
Episode #221Jul 05, 201083 comments

Subdomains in Rails 3

It is now possible to add subdomains to Rails 3 without the use of additional plugins. Learn how in this episode. (13 minutes)
Engage with Devise
Episode #233Sep 27, 201041 comments

Engage with Devise

Janrain Engage (aka RPX) makes it easy to support many authentication solutions through their one service. (6 minutes)