set authentication token in http header

Question

I have been following the railscast on how to set authentication tokens http://railscasts.com/episodes/352-securing-an-api?view=asciicast

I have setup my app very we

Answer 1

The accepted answer does not work.

In Rails 4 it should be request.authorization not request['authorization']

Answer 2

The header name isn't HTTP_AUTHORIZATION and you have to set it like this set it as:

request['authorization'] = "Token token=#{token}"

To be able to use the authenticate_or_request_with_http_token method.

Answer 3

Look at the ActionController::HttpAuthentication module, e.g.

user = 'whatever'
pass = 'you-like'
auth = ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic.encode_credentials(user, pass)
request.headers['Authorization'] = auth

Similarly for a token, e.g.

token = 'whatever-it-is'
auth = ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Token.encode_credentials(token)
request.headers['Authorization'] = auth