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Cheat Sheet: Simple Authentication in Rails 5 with has_secure_password

The goal of this cheatsheet is to make it easy to add hand-rolled authentication to any rails app in a series of layers.

First the simplest/core layers, then optional layers depending on which features/functionality you want.

Specs
AUTHOR Ira Herman
LANGUAGE/STACK Ruby on Rails Version 4 or 5

API workthough

  1. Open a browser

    # start an instance of firefox with selenium-webdriver
    driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
    # :chrome -> chrome
    # :ie     -> iexplore