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Chris Oliver
Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.
About This Episode
Devise has a couple handy routing helpers to constrain routes for authenticated users. In this lesson, we'll learn how to do this from scratch by adding routing constraints Rails' built-in authentication generator
Notes
module Authentication
extend ActiveSupport::Concern
# Routing constraints
Authenticated = ->(request) { Current.session ||= Session.find_by(id: request.cookie_jar.signed[:session_id]) }
Admin = ->(request) { Authenticated.call(request) && Current.user&.admin? }
# ...
end