Integration with Devise

Devise is still a very popular sign in method in Rails. If you want to integrate the media_gallery engine with Rails. Here's the approach we use:

MediaGallery::ApplicationController.class_eval do

  before_action :authenticate_end_user

  def get_user_from_params
    params[:auth_token] ? UrbanoeUser::EndUser.find_by_authentication_token(params[:auth_token]) : nil
  end

  def current_user
    @current_user
  end

  # Authenticates the user but does not throw exception if no user present
  def authenticate_end_user
    @current_user = get_user_from_params()
  end

  def create_ability(user)
    Ability.new(user)
  end
end

The auth_token is the devise auth_token.