Using auth_token from request headers instead from POST/PUT parameters with Rails 3 / devise

Question

I need to use token based authentication in a Rails 3.1 API in conjunction with the most recent version of devise. No problem so far.

Now I do not want to append my :au

Answer 1

Using devise and devise-token_authenticatable, I had to set this in my config/initializers/devise.rb in order to pass the token via http headers:

config.http_authenticatable = true