Authentication

Overview Simply asking users to sign up isn’t just annoying—it could be costing you 45% of your potential customers, according to the famous $300 Million Button case study. Even worse, this friction is amplified on small screens, where abandonment rates spike to 86% for mobile users who simply refuse to type lengthy forms, according to recent abandonment data. By the end of this article, you’ll have a flow where users can build value first and sign up second, without losing their data. So you can avoid this huge loss of potential customers. ...

Overview In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to implement cookie-based authentication with Rails 8. Rails offers many authentication methods—even DIY ones—but cookies are secure, easy to use, and handled automatically by browsers. While many tutorials use JWT, it has a major drawback: where do you store it? Local storage is insecure and easily exploited. Though you can secure JWTs with extra effort, it’s still a relatively new technology. If your primary API consumer is the browser, cookie-based authentication is safer and simpler. ...