Doing a Http basic authentication in rails

Question

Hi I\'m from Grails background and new to Rails. I wish to do http basic authentication in rails.

I have a code in grails which does basic authentication like this:<

Answer 1

I upvoted @Nishant's answer but wanted to add another tidbit. You can always set filters so it only applies to certain controller actions by passing only or except like so:

http_basic_authenticate_with name: "admin", password: "strongpasswordhere", only: [:admin, :new, :edit, :destroy]

or

http_basic_authenticate_with name: "admin", password: "strongpasswordhere", except: [:show]

Very helpful in many instances.