restful_authentication to Devise Migration

• Add the following gem into your Gemfile
• gem 'devise'
• gem 'devise-encryptable'
• Run the following commands from console
• bundle intstall
• rails g devise:install
• In model file whatever you are using saving user information like user.rb
• devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable, :recoverable, :rememberable, :confirmable, :validatable, :encryptable, :encryptor => :restful_authentication_sha1

          Modules :encryptable and :encryptor => :restful_authentication_sha1 are important here.

• In config/initializers/devise.rb, configure as below

config.stretches = 1 config.pepper = ""

We are setting empty pepper and stretches to 1. This is how restful authentication works. It does not use stretches or pepper (by default).

( Note: You may find REST_AUTH_SITE_KEY in config/initializers/site_keys.rb )

In other case if You did set the REST_AUTH_SITE_KEY , then configure as below

config.stretches = 10
  config.pepper = "<YOUR_REST_AUTH_SITE_KEY>"

• If you're using :validatable you may have to adjust your minimum password length. Devise uses 8, restful_authentication uses 6.
• In config/initializers/devise.rb

                    config.password_length = 6..128

That is it for configuration. Now we have to change the table column names (without deleting them) to give devise what it wants. Here is the migration file I used. Change it according to your app's business logic.

• Add migration to change columns

class ConvertRaToDevise < ActiveRecord::Migration

def self.up

  rename_column :users, "crypted_password", "encrypted_password"

 change_column :users, "encrypted_password", :string, :limit => 128, :default => "", :null => false

  rename_column :users, "salt", "password_salt"

  change_column :users, "password_salt", :string, :default => "", :null => false

  add_column :users, "remember_created_at", :datetime

end

def self.down

  remove_column :users, "remember_created_at"

  rename_column :users, "encrypted_password", "crypted_password"

  change_column :users, "crypted_password", :string, :limit => 40

  rename_column :users, "password_salt", "salt"

  change_column :users, "salt", :string, :limit => 40

end

end

You will able to use devise as authentication for your project.