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A multi-account, form-based, database-less, application-wide, Rails authenticator.
The main features of bkuhlmann/auther are: Authentication and Authorization.
Projects with overlapping indexed features include: brownboxdev/veri — Minimal cookie-based authentication library for Ruby on Rails. cancancommunity/cancancan — CanCanCan is an authorization library for Ruby on Rails that lets developers define user permissions in a single,… doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper — Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 authorization server and provider for Ruby on Rails and Grape applications. It provides the… enjaku4/rabarber — Simple role-based authorization library for Ruby on Rails. heartcombo/devise — Devise is a flexible authentication framework for Ruby on Rails applications. It serves as a user identity management… janko/rodauth-rails — Rails integration for Rodauth authentication framework.
CanCanCan is an authorization library for Ruby on Rails that lets developers define user permissions in a single, centralized file using a readable domain-specific language. It enforces those permissions across controllers, views, and database queries, providing a unified approach to access control in Rails applications. The library works by evaluating a prioritized list of rules that combine actions, models, and conditions, supporting aliases, blocks, and conditional logic. It automatically authorizes controller actions through Rails' before_action lifecycle, raising exceptions on unauthoriz
Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 authorization server and provider for Ruby on Rails and Grape applications. It provides the necessary framework to build an authorization server that issues and validates security tokens for third-party applications, effectively acting as a security middleware to protect API endpoints. The project integrates an identity layer via OpenID Connect to verify user identities and retrieve profile information. It supports a variety of security patterns, including the implementation of the PKCE flow for public clients and the issuance of stateless JSON Web Tokens. Its broade
