Simplifying Authentication with HTTP Basic Auth in Rails

Hello again, fellow coders! In a previous article, we delved deep into adding the Devise gem to a Rails app for authentication. Devise is powerful and full of features, but it might be too much overpower for some use cases. Today, we’ll explore an alternative - HTTP Basic Authentication. I recently had the opportunity to implement this in SeQura, and I’m excited to share this experience with you. When to use HTTP Basic Auth? Basic HTTP authentication can serve as a more straightforward alternati...

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