RailsJwtAuth

Rails-API authentication solution based on JWT and inspired by Devise.

This is documentation for version 1.x. If you are using 0.x version use this link

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Configuration
• Modules
• ORMs support
• Controller helpers
• Default Controllers API
• Customize
  • Controllers
  • Payload
  • Responses
  • Strong parameters
• Examples
• Testing
• License

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rails_jwt_auth'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rails_jwt_auth

Finally execute:

rails g rails_jwt_auth:install

Only for ActiveRecord, generate migrations:

rails g rails_jwt_auth:migrate

Configuration

You can edit configuration options into config/initializers/auth_token_auth.rb file created by generator.

Option	Default value	Description
model_name	'User'	Authentication model name
auth_field_name	'email'	Field used to authenticate user with password
email_auth_field	'email'	Field used to send emails
jwt_expiration_time	7.days	Tokens expiration time
jwt_issuer	'RailsJwtAuth'	The "iss" (issuer) claim identifies the principal that issued the JWT
simultaneous_sessions	2	Number of simultaneous sessions for an user. Set 0 to disable sessions
mailer_sender		E-mail address which will be shown in RailsJwtAuth::Mailer
send_email_changed_notification	true	Notify original email when it changes
confirmation_expiration_time	1.day	Confirmation token expiration time
reset_password_expiration_time	1.day	Confirmation token expiration time
deliver_later	false	Uses deliver_later method to send emails
invitation_expiration_time	2.days	Time an invitation is valid and can be accepted
confirmations_url	nil	Url used to create email link with confirmation token
reset_passwords_url	nil	Url used to create email link with reset password token
set_passwords_url	nil	Url used to create email link with set password token
invitationss_url	nil	Url used to create email link with invitation token

Modules

It's composed of 5 modules:

Module	Description
Authenticable	Hashes and stores a password in the database to validate the authenticity of a user while signing in
Confirmable	Sends emails with confirmation instructions and verifies whether an account is already confirmed during sign in
Recoverable	Resets the user password and sends reset instructions
Trackable	Tracks sign in timestamps and IP address
Invitable	Allows you to invite an user to your application sending an invitation mail

ORMs support

RailsJwtAuth support both Mongoid and ActiveRecord.

For next examples auth_field_name and email_field_name are configured to use the field email.

ActiveRecord

# app/models/user.rb
class User < ApplicationRecord
  include RailsJwtAuth::Authenticatable
  include RailsJwtAuth::Confirmable
  include RailsJwtAuth::Recoverable
  include RailsJwtAuth::Trackable
  include RailsJwtAuth::Invitable

  validates :email, presence: true,
                    uniqueness: true,
                    format: URI::MailTo::EMAIL_REGEXP
end

Ensure you have executed migrate task: rails g rails_jwt_auth:migrate and you have uncomented all modules fields into generated migration file.

Mongoid

class User
  include Mongoid::Document
  include RailsJwtAuth::Authenticatable
  include RailsJwtAuth::Confirmable
  include RailsJwtAuth::Recoverable
  include RailsJwtAuth::Trackable
  include RailsJwtAuth::Invitable

  field :email, type: String

  validates :email, presence: true,
                    uniqueness: true,
                    format: URI::MailTo::EMAIL_REGEXP
end

Controller helpers

RailsJwtAuth will create some helpers to use inside your controllers.

To use this helpers we need to include AuthenticableHelper into ApplicationController:

# app/controllers/application_controller.rb
class ApplicationController < ActionController::API
  include RailsJwtAuth::AuthenticableHelper
end

• authenticate!

  Authenticate your controllers:

  class MyController < ApplicationController
    before_action :authenticate!
  end

  This helper expect that token has been into AUTHORIZATION header.
  Raises RailsJwtAuth::NotAuthorized exception when it fails.

• authenticate

  Authenticate your controllers:

  class MyController < ApplicationController
    before_action :authenticate
  end

  This helper is like authenticate! but it not raises exception

• current_user

  Return current signed-in user.

• signed_in?

  Verify if a user is signed in.

Default Controllers API

Session

Session api is defined by RailsJwtAuth::SessionsController.

1. Get session token:

{
  url: host/session,
  method: POST,
  data: {
    session: {
      email: "user@email.com",
      password: "12345678"
    }
  }
}

2. Delete session

{
  url: host/session,
  method: DELETE,
  headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer auth_token'}
}

Registration

Registration api is defined by RailsJwtAuth::RegistrationsController.

1. Register user:

{
  url: host/registration,
  method: POST,
  data: {
    user: {
      email: "user@email.com",
      password: "12345678"
    }
  }
}

2. Delete user:

{
  url: host/registration,
  method: DELETE,
  headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer auth_token'}
}

Confirmation

Confirmation api is defined by RailsJwtAuth::ConfirmationsController.

1. Confirm user:

{
  url: host/confirmation,
  method: PUT
  data: {
    confirmation_token: "token"
  }
}

2. Create confirmation (resend confirmation email):

{
  url: host/confirmation,
  method: POST,
  data: {
    confirmation: {
      email: "user@example.com"
    }
  }
}

Password

Password api is defined by RailsJwtAuth::PasswordsController.

1. Send reset password email:

{
  url: host/password,
  method: POST,
  data: {
    password: {
      email: "user@example.com"
    }
  }
}

2. Update password:

{
  url: host/password,
  method: PUT,
  data: {
    reset_password_token: "token",
    password: {
      password: '1234',
      password_confirmation: '1234'
    }
  }
}

Invitations

Invitations api is provided by RailsJwtAuth::InvitationsController.

1. Create an invitation and send email:

{
  url: host/invitations,
  method: POST,
  data: {
    invitation: {
      email: "user@example.com",
      // More fields of your user
    }
  }
}

2. Accept an invitation:

{
  url: host/invitations/:invitation_token,
  method: PUT,
  data: {
    invitation: {
      password: '1234',
      password_confirmation: '1234'
    }
  }
}

Note: To add more fields, see "Custom strong parameters" below.

Customize

RailsJwtAuth offers an easy way to customize certain parts.

Custom controllers

You can overwrite RailsJwtAuth controllers to edit actions, responses, permitted parameters...

For example, if we want to call custom method when user is created we need to create new registration controller inherited from default controller:

# app/controllers/registrations_controller.rb
class RegistrationsController < RailsJwtAuth::RegistrationsController
  ...

  def create
    user = RailsJwtAuth.model.new(create_params)
    user.do_something_custom
    ...
  end

  ...
end

And edit route resource to use it:

# config/routes.rb
resource :registration, controller: 'registrations', only: [:create, :update, :destroy]

Custom payload

If you need edit default payload used to generate jwt you can overwrite the method to_token_payload into your User class:

class User < ApplicationRecord
  include RailsJwtAuth::Authenticatable
  ...

  def to_token_payload(request)
    {
      auth_token: regenerate_auth_token,
      # add here your custom info
    }
  end
end

Custom responses

You can overwrite RailsJwtAuth::RenderHelper to customize controllers responses.

Custom strong parameters

You can overwrite RailsJwtAuth::ParamsHelper to customize controllers strong parameters.

Examples

Edit user information

This is a controller example that allows users to edit their email and password.

class CurrentUserController < ApplicationController
  before_action 'authenticate!'

  def update
    if update_params[:password]
      current_user.update_with_password(update_params)
    else
      current_user.update_attributes(update_params)
    end
  end

  private

  def update_params
    params.require(:user).permit(:email, :current_password, :password)
  end
end

Register users with random password

This is a controller example that allows admins to register users with random password and send email to reset it. If registration is sucess it will send email to set_password_url with reset password token.

class UsersController < ApplicationController
  before_action 'authenticate!'

  def create
    user = User.new(create_params)
    user.set_and_send_password_instructions ? render_204 : render_422(user.errors.details)
  end

  private

  def create_params
    params.require(:user).permit(:email)
  end
end

Testing (rspec)

Require the RailsJwtAuth::Spec::Helpers helper module in rails_helper.rb.

require 'rails_jwt_auth/spec_helpers'
...
RSpec.configure do |config|
  ...
  config.include RailsJwtAuth::SpecHelpers, :type => :controller
end

And then we can just call sign_in(user) to sign in as a user:

describe ExampleController
  it "blocks unauthenticated access" do
    expect { get :index }.to raise_error(RailsJwtAuth::Errors::NotAuthorized)
  end

  it "allows authenticated access" do
    sign_in user
    get :index
    expect(response).to be_success
  end
end

Locales

Copy config/locales/en.yml into your project config/locales folder and edit it.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.