EnvGuard

Gem that makes it easy to guard your entire application with basic authentication. Useful when you don't want to make staging public.

It essentially performs the following:

before_action :basic_authenticate, if: :application_flagged_for_guarding?

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'env_guard'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install env_guard

Usage

Include in ApplicationController and set the before_action:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  include EnvGuard

  before_action :guard_environment, if: :environment_guard_flags?

  # Conceptually, guard_environment equates to
  # authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic username: ENV['ENVGUARD_USERNAME'], password: ENV['ENVGUARD_PASSWORD']
end

Then be sure to set the ENV variables ENVGUARD_USERNAME and ENVGUARD_PASSWORD only if you want that environment guarded with basic auth.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/dimroc/env_guard.