Doing a Http basic authentication in rails

August 18, 2023 by Tarik

Write the below code, in the controller which you want to restrict using http basic authentication

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  http_basic_authenticate_with :name => "user", :password => "password" 
end

Making a request with open-uri would look like this:

require 'open-uri'

open("http://www.your-website.net/", 
  http_basic_authentication: ["user", "password"])