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Many web apps let users sign up for a new account and log in and out of their accounts. Together, signing up, logging in and logging out make up an authentication system. Let’s create an authentic…
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Using the request/response cycle as a guide, here’s how authentication fits in: Turn one: 1. When a user visits the signup page, the browser makes an HTTP GET request for the URL […] . 2…
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What did we just do? 1. We created a model named User. 2. In the model, we used the method […] . This method adds functionality to save passwords securely. 3. In order to save passwords securel…
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Nice work! You’ve added columns to the users table and ran a migration to update the database. What’s the […] column for? When a user submits her password, it’s not a good idea to store that p…
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Great! When you visit the URL […] , the browser makes a GET request for the URL. This request hits the Users controller’s […] action, which returns a view displaying the signup page.
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Nice job! Now when you fill in the signup form and submit it, the data is sent to the Rails app via a POST request. The request hits the User controller’s […] action. The […] action saves t…
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Now that users can sign up for a new account, let’s add the ability to log in and log out of the app. Using the request/response cycle as a guide again, here’s how logging in and logging out fits i…
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Well done! 1. When you visit the URL […] , the browser makes a GET request for the URL. This request hits the Sessions controller’s […] action, which returns a view displaying the login pa…
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Nice job! Now when you fill in the login form and submit it, the data is sent to the Rails app via a POST request. The request hits the Sessions controller’s […] action. The […] action chec…
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Great work so far! We’ve built an authentication system that lets new users sign up for the site, and lets existing users log in and out. However, there’s one problem - even after you log out, you…
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How do these methods work? 1. The […] method determines whether a user is logged in or logged out. It does this by checking whether there’s a user in the database with a given session id. If t…
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Congratulations! You built an authentication system from scratch. What can we generalize so far? An authentication system is made up of sign up, log in, log out functionality. The […] colu…
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