instance method `has_secure_password`

Ruby on Rails 4.1.16

Since v3.1.12

Available in: v3.1.12 v3.2.22.5 v4.0.13 v4.1.16 v4.2.9 v5.2.8.1 v6.0.6 v6.1.7.10 v7.0.10 v7.1.6 v7.2.3 v8.0.4 v8.1.2

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has_secure_password(options = {})

Adds methods to set and authenticate against a BCrypt password. This mechanism requires you to have a password_digest attribute.

Validations for presence of password on create, confirmation of password (using a password_confirmation attribute) are automatically added. If you wish to turn off validations, pass validations: false as an argument. You can add more validations by hand if need be.

If you don’t need the confirmation validation, just don’t set any value to the password_confirmation attribute and the validation will not be triggered.

You need to add bcrypt (~> 3.1.7) to Gemfile to use #has_secure_password:

gem 'bcrypt', '~> 3.1.7'

Example using Active Record (which automatically includes ActiveModel::SecurePassword):

# Schema: User(name:string, password_digest:string)
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_secure_password
end

user = User.new(name: 'david', password: '', password_confirmation: 'nomatch')
user.save                                                       # => false, password required
user.password = 'mUc3m00RsqyRe'
user.save                                                       # => false, confirmation doesn't match
user.password_confirmation = 'mUc3m00RsqyRe'
user.save                                                       # => true
user.authenticate('notright')                                   # => false
user.authenticate('mUc3m00RsqyRe')                              # => user
User.find_by(name: 'david').try(:authenticate, 'notright')      # => false
User.find_by(name: 'david').try(:authenticate, 'mUc3m00RsqyRe') # => user

Parameters

options opt = {}

Source

# File activemodel/lib/active_model/secure_password.rb, line 44
      def has_secure_password(options = {})
        # Load bcrypt gem only when has_secure_password is used.
        # This is to avoid ActiveModel (and by extension the entire framework)
        # being dependent on a binary library.
        begin
          require 'bcrypt'
        rescue LoadError
          $stderr.puts "You don't have bcrypt installed in your application. Please add it to your Gemfile and run bundle install"
          raise
        end

        attr_reader :password

        include InstanceMethodsOnActivation

        if options.fetch(:validations, true)
          # This ensures the model has a password by checking whether the password_digest
          # is present, so that this works with both new and existing records. However,
          # when there is an error, the message is added to the password attribute instead
          # so that the error message will make sense to the end-user.
          validate do |record|
            record.errors.add(:password, :blank) unless record.password_digest.present?
          end

          validates_confirmation_of :password, if: ->{ password.present? }
        end

        if respond_to?(:attributes_protected_by_default)
          def self.attributes_protected_by_default #:nodoc:
            super + ['password_digest']
          end
        end
      end

Defined in activemodel/lib/active_model/secure_password.rb line 44 · View on GitHub · Improve this page · Find usages on GitHub

Defined in ActiveModel::SecurePassword::ClassMethods

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Parameters