#82 HTTP Basic Authentication

Dec 02, 2007 | 4 minutes | Controllers, Administration, Rails 2.0, Authentication

Rails 2.0 offers an extremely easy way to do HTTP basic authentication. See how in this episode.

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ActionController::HttpAuthentication
Episode 21: Super Simple Authentication

products_controller.rb

before_filter :authenticate
protected
def authenticate
 authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |username, password|
 username == "foo" && password == "bar"
 end
end