Authenticate rails 6 app with Active Directory

Question

Rails - 6.0.2 Ruby - 2.6.6

I want to authenticate devise rails app with Active Directory login credentials.

My requirement is: Once the user logs in to the system, go to the application in the browser. Click on a link "Authenticate with AD", the user should automatically log in to the application without any login credentials.

Any suggestions ?

Few questions. These might be very basic, but I am new to AD.

• If the rails production server is in Linux, do we need to join that linux server to the AD server ?
• If yes, what configuration we need to make for that ?
• Will it be at server level configuration?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes there be server level configurations. For configuring your server follow this doc.

For idap_authenticable gem you can follow this complete answer.

Yes you would need to join the Linux server because you need to transfer the code to the server. To transfer the code you can use git.

You would need to configure the database.yml and secret.yml production:

 adapter: sqlite3
 database: db/production.sqlite3