Using Devise 1.3 to authenticate JSON login requests

Question

I am new to rails. I am trying to write an API for a mobile application which authenticates using JSON. I want to use Devise for the authentication. I believe Devise >1.3 ad

Answer 1

The Jesse Howarth's solution will break logging with browser when using html format responses. If you want to make both JSON and HTML to work try someting like this:

class SessionsController < Devise::SessionsController
  def create
    resource = warden.authenticate!(:scope => resource_name, :recall => "#{controller_path}#new")
    set_flash_message(:notice, :signed_in) if is_navigational_format?
    sign_in(resource_name, resource)
    respond_to do |format|  
      format.html { respond_with resource, :location => after_sign_in_path_for(resource) }  
      format.json {  
         return render :json => {  :success => true, 
           :user => resource
         } 
      }  
    end
  end
end

And don't forget to change your routes to use this controller