class Devise::Strategies::TokenAuthenticatable

Strategy for signing in a user, based on a authenticatable token. This works for both params and http. For the former, all you need to do is to pass the params in the URL:

http://myapp.example.com/?user_token=SECRET

For headers, you can use basic authentication passing the token as username and blank password. Since some clients may require a password, you can pass "X" as password and it will simply be ignored.

You may also pass the token using the Token authentication mechanism provided by Rails: api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/HttpAuthentication/Token.html The token options are stored in request.env

Public Instance Methods

authenticate!() click to toggle source
# File lib/devise/strategies/token_authenticatable.rb, line 26
def authenticate!
  resource = mapping.to.find_for_token_authentication(authentication_hash)
  return fail(:invalid_token) unless resource

  if validate(resource)
    resource.after_token_authentication
    success!(resource)
  end
end
store?() click to toggle source
# File lib/devise/strategies/token_authenticatable.rb, line 18
def store?
  super && !mapping.to.skip_session_storage.include?(:token_auth)
end
valid?() click to toggle source
# File lib/devise/strategies/token_authenticatable.rb, line 22
def valid?
  super || valid_for_token_auth?
end