Setting Up the Authentication Token
Explore how to set up authentication tokens in a Rails API using the JWT standard. Learn to encode and decode tokens with the jwt gem, create a JsonWebToken class for managing tokens, and configure your Rails app for secure user authentication.
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Tool used
The JWT standard has many implementations in various languages and libraries. The Ruby gem for this function is jwt. We can use the bundle add command to add this gem to our Gemfile.
Once this command is executed, the following line is added to our Gemfile:
gem "jwt", "~> 2.2"
As discussed earlier, the required gems have already been installed for our app. The library is ...