Unraveling the black box: past, present and future of authentication in Rails
Alicia Rojas • Philadelphia, PA • Talk

Date: July 10, 2025
Published: not published
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We often treat authentication as a black box because we’ve been standing on the shoulders of giants (aka Devise). Recently, a long-awaited feature has shipped with Rails 8: a built-in authentication generator! Let’s explore how the new default works and what we can learn from history and precedents when creating our authN flows.

RailsConf 2025