* [Database Authenticatable](http://rubydoc.info/github/plataformatec/devise/master/Devise/Models/DatabaseAuthenticatable): hashes and stores a password in the database to validate the authenticity of a user while signing in. The authentication can be done both through POST requests or HTTP Basic Authentication.
* [Confirmable](http://rubydoc.info/github/plataformatec/devise/master/Devise/Models/Confirmable): sends emails with confirmation instructions and verifies whether an account is already confirmed during sign in.
* [Recoverable](http://rubydoc.info/github/plataformatec/devise/master/Devise/Models/Recoverable): resets the user password and sends reset instructions.
* [Registerable](http://rubydoc.info/github/plataformatec/devise/master/Devise/Models/Registerable): handles signing up users through a registration process, also allowing them to edit and destroy their account.
* [Rememberable](http://rubydoc.info/github/plataformatec/devise/master/Devise/Models/Rememberable): manages generating and clearing a token for remembering the user from a saved cookie.
* [Trackable](http://rubydoc.info/github/plataformatec/devise/master/Devise/Models/Trackable): tracks sign in count, timestamps and IP address.
* [Timeoutable](http://rubydoc.info/github/plataformatec/devise/master/Devise/Models/Timeoutable): expires sessions that have not been active in a specified period of time.
* [Validatable](http://rubydoc.info/github/plataformatec/devise/master/Devise/Models/Validatable): provides validations of email and password. It's optional and can be customized, so you're able to define your own validations.
* [Lockable](http://rubydoc.info/github/plataformatec/devise/master/Devise/Models/Lockable): locks an account after a specified number of failed sign-in attempts. Can unlock via email or after a specified time period.
The Devise Wiki has lots of additional information about Devise including many "how-to" articles and answers to the most frequently asked questions. Please browse the Wiki after finishing this README:
If you discover a problem with Devise, we would like to know about it. However, we ask that you please review these guidelines before submitting a bug report:
If you need to use Devise with previous versions of Rails, you can always run "gem server" from the command line after you install the gem to access the old documentation.
There are a few example applications available on GitHub that demonstrate various features of Devise with different versions of Rails. You can view them here:
Our community has created a number of extensions that add functionality above and beyond what is included with Devise. You can view a list of available extensions and add your own here:
You will usually want to write tests for your changes. To run the test suite, go into Devise's top-level directory and run "bundle install" and "rake". For the tests to pass, you will need to have a MongoDB server (version 2.0 or newer) running on your system.
If you are building your first Rails application, we recommend you *do not* use Devise. Devise requires a good understanding of the Rails Framework. In such cases, we advise you to start a simple authentication system from scratch. Today, we have three resources that should help you get started:
The generator will install an initializer which describes ALL of Devise's configuration options. It is *imperative* that you take a look at it. When you are done, you are ready to add Devise to any of your models using the generator:
Replace MODEL with the class name used for the application’s users (it’s frequently `User` but could also be `Admin`). This will create a model (if one does not exist) and configure it with the default Devise modules. The generator also configures your `config/routes.rb` file to point to the Devise controller.
Next, check the MODEL for any additional configuration options you might want to add, such as confirmable or lockable. If you add an option, be sure to inspect the migration file (created by the generator if your ORM supports them) and uncomment the appropriate section. For example, if you add the confirmable option in the model, you'll need to uncomment the Confirmable section in the migration. Then run `rake db:migrate`
Next, you need to set up the default URL options for the Devise mailer in each environment. Here is a possible configuration for `config/environments/development.rb`:
You should restart your application after changing Devise's configuration options. Otherwise, you will run into strange errors, for example, users being unable to login and route helpers being undefined.
Devise will create some helpers to use inside your controllers and views. To set up a controller with user authentication, just add this before_action (assuming your devise model is 'User'):
For Rails 5, note that `protect_from_forgery` is no longer prepended to the `before_action` chain, so if you have set `authenticate_user` before `protect_from_forgery`, your request will result in "Can't verify CSRF token authenticity." To resolve this, either change the order in which you call them, or use `protect_from_forgery prepend: true`.
After signing in a user, confirming the account or updating the password, Devise will look for a scoped root path to redirect to. For instance, when using a `:user` resource, the `user_root_path` will be used if it exists; otherwise, the default `root_path` will be used. This means that you need to set the root inside your routes:
The Devise method in your models also accepts some options to configure its modules. For example, you can choose the cost of the hashing algorithm with:
Besides `:stretches`, you can define `:pepper`, `:encryptor`, `:confirm_within`, `:remember_for`, `:timeout_in`, `:unlock_in` among other options. For more details, see the initializer file that was created when you invoked the "devise:install" generator described above. This file is usually located at `/config/initializers/devise.rb`.
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*For previous Devise versions see https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/tree/3-stable#strong-parameters*
When you customize your own views, you may end up adding new attributes to forms. Rails 4 moved the parameter sanitization from the model to the controller, causing Devise to handle this concern at the controller as well.
There are just three actions in Devise that allow any set of parameters to be passed down to the model, therefore requiring sanitization. Their names and default permitted parameters are:
The above works for any additional fields where the parameters are simple scalar types. If you have nested attributes (say you're using `accepts_nested_attributes_for`), then you will need to tell devise about those nestings and types. Devise allows you to completely change Devise defaults or invoke custom behaviour by passing a block:
If you have some checkboxes that express the roles a user may take on registration, the browser will send those selected checkboxes as an array. An array is not one of Strong Parameters' permitted scalars, so we need to configure Devise in the following way:
If you have multiple Devise models, you may want to set up a different parameter sanitizer per model. In this case, we recommend inheriting from `Devise::ParameterSanitizer` and adding your own logic:
The example above overrides the permitted parameters for the user to be both `:username` and `:email`. The non-lazy way to configure parameters would be by defining the before filter above in a custom controller. We detail how to configure and customize controllers in some sections below.
We built Devise to help you quickly develop an application that uses authentication. However, we don't want to be in your way when you need to customize it.
Since Devise is an engine, all its views are packaged inside the gem. These views will help you get started, but after some time you may want to change them. If this is the case, you just need to invoke the following generator, and it will copy all views to your application:
If you have more than one Devise model in your application (such as `User` and `Admin`), you will notice that Devise uses the same views for all models. Fortunately, Devise offers an easy way to customize views. All you need to do is set `config.scoped_views = true` inside the `config/initializers/devise.rb` file.
After doing so, you will be able to have views based on the role like `users/sessions/new` and `admins/sessions/new`. If no view is found within the scope, Devise will use the default view at `devise/sessions/new`. You can also use the generator to generate scoped views:
3. Copy the views from `devise/sessions` to `users/sessions`. Since the controller was changed, it won't use the default views located in `devise/sessions`.
Remember that Devise uses flash messages to let users know if sign in was successful or unsuccessful. Devise expects your application to call `flash[:notice]` and `flash[:alert]` as appropriate. Do not print the entire flash hash, print only specific keys. In some circumstances, Devise adds a `:timedout` key to the flash hash, which is not meant for display. Remove this key from the hash if you intend to print the entire hash.
Devise also ships with default routes. If you need to customize them, you should probably be able to do it through the devise_for method. It accepts several options like :class_name, :path_prefix and so on, including the possibility to change path names for I18n:
Be sure to check `devise_for` [documentation](http://www.rubydoc.info/github/plataformatec/devise/master/ActionDispatch/Routing/Mapper%3Adevise_for) for details.
If you have the need for more deep customization, for instance to also allow "/sign_in" besides "/users/sign_in", all you need to do is create your routes normally and wrap them in a `devise_scope` block in the router:
Take a look at our locale file to check all available messages. You may also be interested in one of the many translations that are available on our wiki:
Caution: Devise Controllers inherit from ApplicationController. If your app uses multiple locales, you should be sure to set I18n.locale in ApplicationController.
Devise includes some test helpers for functional specs. In order to use them, you need to include Devise in your functional tests by adding the following to the bottom of your `test/test_helper.rb` file (make sure you place it out of scope of `ActiveSupport::TestCase` which is the default class inside of `test/test_helper.rb`):
If you're using RSpec, you can put the following inside a file named `spec/support/devise.rb` or in your `spec/spec_helper.rb` (or `spec/rails_helper.rb` if you are using rspec-rails):
1. These helpers are not going to work for integration tests driven by Capybara or Webrat. They are meant to be used with functional tests only. It is undesirable even to include `Devise::TestHelpers` during integration tests. Instead, fill in the form or explicitly set the user in session;
2. If you are testing Devise internal controllers or a controller that inherits from Devise's, you need to tell Devise which mapping should be used before a request. This is necessary because Devise gets this information from the router, but since functional tests do not pass through the router, it needs to be stated explicitly. For example, if you are testing the user scope, simply use:
Devise comes with OmniAuth support out of the box to authenticate with other providers. To use it, simply specify your OmniAuth configuration in `config/initializers/devise.rb`:
Devise allows you to set up as many Devise models as you want. If you want to have an Admin model with just authentication and timeout features, in addition to the User model above, just run:
Keep in mind that those models will have completely different routes. They **do not** and **cannot** share the same controller for sign in, sign out and so on. In case you want to have different roles sharing the same actions, we recommend that you use a role-based approach, by either providing a role column or using a dedicated gem for authorization.
If you enable the [Recoverable](http://rubydoc.info/github/plataformatec/devise/master/Devise/Models/Recoverable) module, note that a stolen password reset token could give an attacker access to your application. Devise takes effort to generate random, secure tokens, and stores only token digests in the database, never plaintext. However the default logging behavior in Rails can cause plaintext tokens to leak into log files:
1. Action Mailer logs the entire contents of all outgoing emails to the DEBUG level. Password reset tokens delivered to users in email will be leaked.
2. Active Job logs all arguments to every enqueued job at the INFO level. If you configure Devise to use `deliver_later` to send password reset emails, password reset tokens will be leaked.
Rails sets the production logger level to DEBUG by default. Consider changing your production logger level to WARN if you wish to prevent tokens from being leaked into your logs. In `config/environments/production.rb`:
Devise is based on Warden, which is a general Rack authentication framework created by Daniel Neighman. We encourage you to read more about Warden here: