Rails API Authentication Using JWT - Tutorial

You are surely aware about the importance of API authentication using JWT while developing any application. Do you find JWT authentication difficult? Looking for a solution of How to develop Rails API authentication using JWT? Then you landed on the right page.

Prerequisites

Here, we only need to develop a demo application with only a Login feature and we see how we can implement JWT-based authentication in the Rails app. Here, what we need first :-

• Ruby 2.7.0
• Postman
• Rails 7.0.3
• SQLite DB

Now you have to follow the following steps to make an easy implementation.

• Create Rails Application
• Add Gems
• Create User Model
• Create User Controller
• Add CRUD Operations
• Create JwtToken Concern
• Creating Authentication Controller
• Implementing the Login Function
• Update routes.rb
• Test the API using Postman
  • Create Users
  • Login

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