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

Above answers are correct, but it is better to not put the user and password in the source code.

Better have the password in environment variables for production (in the code is OK for development)

class YourController..
  http_basic_authenticate_with name: ENV["HTTP_BASIC_AUTH_USER"], password: ENV["HTTP_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD"], if: -> { ENV['RAILS_ENV'] == 'production' }
  http_basic_authenticate_with name: "user", password: "pass", if: -> { ENV['RAILS_ENV'] != 'production' }