Comments on: Rails 2.0: HTTP Basic Authentication

By: preston.lee

preston.lee — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:03:16 +0000

@Dustin You can always put it in a config file that doesn't get checked into your revision control system.

Dustin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:39:33 +0000

Any way around leaving the password in the test? I’d like to avoid leaving the cleartext password in my test. Thanks.

Anthony Bailey — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:01:20 +0000

Thanks for this – just what I was Googling for.

BTW, I found that Base64::b64encode printed the encoded string as a side effect, which made my rake test output rather noisy.

Using Base64::encode64 instead solved that for me.

preston.lee — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:48:40 +0000

Just a placeholder for wherever your admin password comes from. I updated it to read “some_username:some_password”.

ryan — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:20:57 +0000

Where does “Configuration::ADMIN[:username]” come from?