Andrew Van Beek

All posts by Andrew Van Beek

1. The Rails Guide to Securing an API

   July 20, 2021 |

   5 min read

   In this tutorial we are going down a different track then our last Ruby Post (bad pun intended). Instead diving into building a very simple API that, of course, we will secure with access tokens minted by our very own Okta OAuth server. We'll make requests to this API via…

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2. Easy Authentication for Ruby On Rails Login

   September 25, 2020 |

   3 min read

   A couple of things have changed in the Rails world since we published our last blog post on Rails. For one, Rails 6.0 was released on August 16, 2019 (Yay progress!), and, for another, Omniauth had a CRSF vulnerability reported (not so great). Does this make you a bit anxious?…

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3. Simple Authentication with Rails and OmniAuth

   September 18, 2018 |

   2 min read

   Today I'm going to show you how to authenticate users into your Rails applications using the latest best-practices and a hosted authentication/authorization provider which makes managing users simple. Specifically, you'll learn how to integrate Rails and Okta to create, manage, and secure users with OpenID Connect.

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