Authentication with the Token
Understand how to secure Rails API endpoints by implementing token-based authentication. Learn to restrict user updates and deletions to authenticated owners only and verify these protections through testing.
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Authorization plays a vital role in constructing applications because it helps define what the user can do. We have a route to update the user, but there is a problem; anyone can update any user.
This section will implement a method that will require the user to be logged in to prevent unauthorized access.
We can do this by updating our users_controller.rb file to refuse access to specific ...