Authenticating Users using Authy and Clearance

This is a Rails 6 application that authenticates users using Authy and Clearance

Installation.

• Clone the Repo into a folder of your choice

  git clone https://github.com/faithngetich/demo-app.git

• Navigate inside your newly created application's folder.

  $ cd demo-app

• Db setup

  $ bin/rails db:migrate

• Install dependecies.

  $ bundle

• Start up the application.

  $ rails server

Configuring Authy

Grab your production API key from yourconsole and export it in your environment.

$ export AUTHY_API_KEY=Your Authy API Key

Setting up the webhook URL.

• Setup and install ngrok using the official documentation.

• Run $./ngrok http 3000

• Add the configuration to your environment configuration in the config/environments/development.rb to allow requests to the ngrok url.

  config.file_watcher = ActiveSupport::EventedFileUpdateChecker config.hosts << "n9220399.ngrok.io"

• Restart the server and try accessing the ngrok link.

• Got to your app’s authy console and set webhook endpoint/URL for authy to post it’s. The URL looks something like this http://396ofdef.ngrok.io/authy/callback