Ruby on Rails Crash Course: Authentication and Authorization

When creating a Web application, you usually have to start with the two key elements:

• Authentication – User logs in, user account management.
• Authorization – User roles, permissions, and access to different parts of your app. coursedrive

Code-Along and build a Web App MVP covering all aspects of Log-In, User Management, and Role-Management functionality. Ruby on Rails Crash Course: Authentication and Authorization

Core topics covered:

• Basic authorization via email (Devise)
• Social login via Google
• Social login via Facebook
• Social login via Twitter
• Social login via Github
• Devise confirmable
• Devise trackable
• Devise lockable
• Devise inevitable – Inviting users to join the app via email
• Banning users
• Deleting users
• Editing user profile
• Managing user roles (admin, teacher, student) without any gems
• Role-based access to different features (example: only admin can ban a user) without any gems
• Blocking bot registrations
• Sending transactional emails in production (Amazon SES)

By the end of the course, you will have created a boilerplate, based on which you can build any business application of your dream.
This course can be interesting for Ruby on Rails developers of all levels: for beginners and for veterans. Ruby on Rails Crash Course: Authentication and Authorization

As a beginner, you will get the whole experience of thinking and building the core filesystem of any modern Web Application.

As a veteran, you will get acquainted with some exquisite approaches for problem-solving, and features that you could have not encountered in the past.

We are not going to cover the fundamentals of what Ruby and Rails are: there are other, more basic courses for that.

Instead, we will dive straight into coding along and building our application step-by-step, feature-by-feature.

As well all enrolled students will have access to the source code, support materials, and discussion groups.

Looking forward to seeing you inside!