Re: [Rails] Creating an API key (many to many mapping), how would I go about it

Ideally I'm viewing this as a fairly simple feature to add. Also I'm hoping this will help Mr solidify best practice for how to do things.

Where I'm getting confused is what should be creating the user/key entries. I could make this part of the options for creating a key( aka passing in a user-id) and failing if it doesn't exist etc. Then creating the mapping on after-save for the key. Or I could implement this as its own controller, and put some of the logic in there.

On May 7, 2012 10:30 PM, "Kevin Bedell" <kbedell@gmail.com> wrote:

Here's a bit of information on building out an API using security and API keys.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10470509/building-an-api-as-a-service/10470584#10470584

I'd use 'devise' to manage api users with token auth enabled and have
the token be their api key.

I've done this before and it's not too bad once you've gotten devise
installed and configured correctly.

-Kevin

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Beau <beautrepp@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys.
>
> I'm still a super rails noob, and trying to figure this out in relation to
> learning how to write controllers/models and where stuff should go.
>
> Basically I have my models set up with a many-to-many mapping of API keys to
> users. There's three models here, users, api_keys_users, and api_keys. I've
> got a view/controller setup for the users. But have avoided doing it for the
> api_keys and api_keys_users tables. Manually I can create a API key and map
> it to a user using SQL but now I want to set it up for generation via the
> view.
>
> However I have no idea where the logic should go. Basically I want a
> "generate new api key" button on the show users page. This would create a
> unique entry in the api_key table. Then create an entry in the
> api_keys_users table with the id of the user and the id of the new key.
>
> Any pointers?
>
> -Beau
>
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