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Rails 8 Authentication and Beyond

When you're kicking off a new application, one of the first things you tackle is setting up the authentication system. For ages, Devise has been the go-to solution for handling just about anything related to authentication in a Rails application.

Now, Rails 8 comes with a built-in, basic authentication generator. If needed, you can expand on this foundation to include features like registration, two-factor authentication, account locking, invitations, and activity tracking. Naturally, different applications will have different requirements, and adding all these extra bells and whistles can take time, configuration, and integration work.

Rails 8’s Basic Authentication

Honestly, one of the features a lot of Rails developers were excited about in Rails 8 is this new built-in authentication generator. It's super handy for those working on simple applications because it means you don't have to immediately reach for a third-party gem like Devise to get started.

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Using PostgreSQL Notify and Trigger Functions in Ruby on Rails

One of the advanced features of PostgreSQL is the NOTIFY and LISTEN functionality. These features enable real-time communication between databases and applications. Modern web applications that requires event-driven behavoir and real-time updates will benefit from this.

Combining these features with Ruby on Rails can create powerful real-time applications with minimum overhead.

NOTIFY and LISTEN

The NOTIFY and LISTEN features allows a database session to send and receive asynchoronous messages. With NOTIFY, a session broadcasts a message on a specific channel. LISTEN allows other sessions to subscribe to those messages. The mechanishm enables real-time communication and thus reducing the need for continous polling of the database.

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Unveiling the Power of Enums for Scoping Queries in Rails

Provided in ActiveRecord, enums are used to define a set of named values for an attribute on a model. The basic implementation for enums are for attributes that relates to status, stages and states.

class Task < ApplicationRecord
  enum status: { pending: 0, active: 1, completed: 2, paused: 3, archived: 4 }
end

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require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

class TwilioMessage

  def initialize(options = {})
    @account_sid          = ENV.fetch('TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID')
    @account_token        = ENV.fetch('TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN')
    @message_service_sid  = ENV.fetch('TWILIO_MSID')

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import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';

@Injectable()
export class AppSettingsProvider {

  endPoint: string;
  baseUrl: string;
  mode: string;

  constructor() {

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Attempt to run an auto-backup script from DigitalOcean Ubuntu Droplet (running Ruby on Rails app) on PostGres database.

1. Setup s3cmd
S3cmd will upload the backup files generated.
The `sync` command will be executed after the autopostgresqlbackup script finished it's job (added on the POSTBACKUP command).
Follow the steps enumerated in https://levels.io/backup-linode-digital-ocean-vps-amazon-s3/ until the recusive part:
s3cmd sync --recursive --preserve /your-folder-name-to-backup s3://nameofyours3bucket

2. Setup AutoPostGresqlBackup
Follow the instructions in the `Installing and configuring autopostgresqlbackup in CentOS 7` from:

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def attempt_login
  authorized_user = User.authenticate(params[:username], params[:hashed_password])
  unless authorized_user.eql?(false)
    session[:user_id] = authorized_user.id
    session[:username] = authorized_user.username
    case authorized_user.account_type
      when "admin"
        redirect_to :action => "index"
      when "it"
        redirect_to :action => "it"