Rails 6 API Tutorial - Finding the user and adding their ID to the JWT payload p.21
In this video series we will build a Rails API from scratch. Backend APIs are useful for serving data to frontend applications, mobile apps or other backend services.
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This video covers:
00:00 - Introduction
00:13 - Generating a User model
00:59 - Finding the user, from params, in the authentication controller
01:37 - Calling AuthenticationTokenService and passing in the User ID
02:22 - Running the migrations
02:56 - Using FactoryBot to create a user in the specs
05:01 - Updating AuthenticationTokenService to receive user_id and add it to the JWT payload
06:25 - Fixing the AuthenticationTokenService spec
07:41 - Deleting unused pending spec
08:05 - Creating a User in the DB, in order to manually test authentication
08:48 - Testing the authenticate API via cURL
10:47 - Updating the controller to return the JWT generated from AuthenticationTokenService
12:01 - Checking the JWT on jwt.io
If you’re new to this series, you may want to start with part 1: • Rails 6 API Tutorial - Create project and ...