ruby - Doing a Http basic authentication in rails

Question

Hi I'm from Grails background and new to Rails. I wish to do http basic authentication in rails.

I have a code in grails which does basic authentication like this:

def authString = "${key}:".getBytes().encodeBase64().toString()
def conn = "http://something.net".toURL().openConnection()
conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic ${authString}")

Can the same be done with rails?

Answer 1

Write the below code, in the controller which you want to restrict using http basic authentication

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  http_basic_authenticate_with :name => "user", :password => "password" 
end

Making a request with open-uri would look like this:

require 'open-uri'

open("http://www.your-website.net/", 
  http_basic_authentication: ["user", "password"])