The omniauth-identity gem provides a way for applications to utilize a traditional username/password based authentication system without the need to give up the simple authentication flow provided by OmniAuth. Identity is designed on purpose to be as featureless as possible: it provides the basic construct for user management and then gets out of the way.
Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:
$ bundle add omniauth-identity
If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:
$ gem install omniauth-identity
omniauth-identity is cryptographically signed, and has verifiable SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums by stone_checksums. Be sure the gem you install hasn’t been tampered with by following the instructions below.
Add my public key (if you haven’t already, expires 2045-04-29) as a trusted certificate:
gem cert --add <(curl -Ls https://raw.github.com/omniauth/omniauth-identity/main/certs/pboling.pem)
You only need to do that once. Then proceed to install with:
gem install omniauth-identity -P MediumSecurity
The MediumSecurity trust profile will verify signed gems, but allow the installation of unsigned dependencies.
This is necessary because not all of omniauth-identity’s dependencies are signed, so we cannot use HighSecurity.
If you want to up your security game full-time:
bundle config set --global trust-policy MediumSecurity
NOTE: Be prepared to track down certs for signed gems and add them the same way you added mine.
This gem is compatible with a wide range of Ruby versions and Ruby ORMs, as of May 2025, version 3.1.
This can be a bit hard to understand the first time. Luckily, Ryan Bates made a Railscast about it!
You use omniauth-identity just like you would any other OmniAuth provider: as a Rack middleware. In rails, this would be created by an initializer, such as config/initializers/omniauth.rb. The basic setup for an email/password authentication would look something like this:
use OmniAuth::Builder do
provider :identity, # required: tells OA that the Identity strategy is being used
model: Identity, # optional: specifies the name of the "Identity" model. Defaults to "Identity"
fields: %i[email custom1 custom2] # optional: list of custom fields that are in the model's table
end
Next, you need to create a model (called Identity by default, or specified with :model argument above) that will be able to persist the information provided by the user. Luckily for you, there are pre-built models for popular ORMs that make this dead simple.
Once you've got an Identity persistence model and the strategy up and running, you can point users to /auth/identity and it will request that they log in or give them the opportunity to sign up for an account. Once they have authenticated with their identity, OmniAuth will call through to /auth/identity/callback with the same kinds of information it would have had the user authenticated through an external provider.
Note: OmniAuth Identity is different from many other user authentication systems in that it is not built to store authentication information in your primary User model. Instead, the Identity model should be associated with your User model giving you maximum flexibility to include other authentication strategies such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Just subclass OmniAuth::Identity::Models::ActiveRecord and provide fields in the database for all the fields you are using.
class Identity < OmniAuth::Identity::Models::ActiveRecord
auth_key :email # optional: specifies the field within the model that will be used during the login process
# defaults to email, but may be username, uid, login, etc.
# Anything else you want!
end
Sequel is an alternative to ActiveRecord.
Just include OmniAuth::Identity::Models::Sequel mixin, and specify whatever else you will need.
class SequelTestIdentity < Sequel::Model(:identities) include ::OmniAuth::Identity::Models::Sequel auth_key :email # whatever else you want! end
Include the OmniAuth::Identity::Models::Mongoid mixin and specify fields that you will need.
class Identity include ::Mongoid::Document include ::OmniAuth::Identity::Models::Mongoid field :email, type: String field :name, type: String field :password_digest, type: String end
Include the OmniAuth::Identity::Models::CouchPotatoModule mixin and specify fields that you will need.
class Identity
# NOTE: CouchPotato::Persistence must be included before OmniAuth::Identity::Models::CouchPotatoModule
include ::CouchPotato::Persistence
include ::OmniAuth::Identity::Models::CouchPotatoModule
property :email
property :password_digest
def self.where(search_hash)
CouchPotato.database.view(Identity.by_email(key: search_hash))
end
view :by_email, key: :email
end
NoBrainer is an ORM for RethinkDB.
Include the OmniAuth::Identity::Models::NoBrainer mixin and specify fields that you will need.
class Identity include ::NoBrainer::Document include ::OmniAuth::Identity::Models::NoBrainer auth_key :email end
Would love to add a mixin for the Ruby Object Mapper (ROM) if anyone wants to work on it!
To use a class other than the default, specify the :model option to a different class.
use OmniAuth::Builder do provider :identity, fields: [:email], model: MyCustomClass end
NOTE: In the above example, MyCustomClass must have a class method called auth_key that returns the default (email) or custom auth_key to use.
To use your own custom registration form, create a form that POSTs to /auth/identity/register with password, password_confirmation, and your other fields.
<%= form_tag '/auth/identity/register' do |f| %> <h1>Create an Account</h1> <%= text_field_tag :email %> <%= password_field_tag :password %> <%= password_field_tag :password_confirmation %> <%= submit_tag %> <% end %>
Beware not to nest your form parameters within a namespace. This strategy looks for the form parameters at the top level of the post params. If you are using simple_form, then you can avoid the params nesting by specifying :input_html.
<%= simple_form_for @identity, :url => '/auth/identity/register' do |f| %>
<h1>Create an Account</h1>
<%# specify :input_html to avoid params nesting %>
<%= f.input :email, :input_html => {:name => 'email'} %>
<%= f.input :password, :as => 'password', :input_html => {:name => 'password'} %>
<%= f.input :password_confirmation, :label => "Confirm Password", :as => 'password', :input_html => {:name => 'password_confirmation'} %>
<button type='submit'>Sign Up</button>
<% end %>
Next you'll need to let OmniAuth know what action to call when a registration fails. In your OmniAuth configuration, specify any valid rack endpoint in the :on_failed_registration option.
use OmniAuth::Builder do
provider :identity,
fields: [:email],
on_failed_registration: UsersController.action(:new)
end
For more information on rack endpoints, check out this introduction and ActionController::Metal
Customizing Locate ConditionsYou can customize the way that matching records are found when authenticating. For example, for a site with multiple domains, you may wish to scope the search within a particular subdomain. To do so, add :locate_conditions to your config. The default value is:
use OmniAuth::Builder do
provider :identity,
locate_conditions: ->(req) { {model.auth_key => req.params["auth_key"]} }
# ...
end
locate_conditions takes a Proc object, and must return a Hash object, which will be used as the argument to the locate method for your ORM. The proc is evaluated in the callback context, and has access to your Identity model (using model) and receives the request object as a parameter. Note that model.auth_key defaults to email, but is also configurable.
Note: Be careful when customizing locate_conditions. The best way to modify the conditions is to copy the default value, and then add to the hash. Removing the default condition will almost always break things!
From the code - here are the options we have for you, a couple of which are documented above, and the rest are documented... in the specs we hope!?
option :fields, %i[name email]
# Primary Feature Switches:
option :enable_registration, true # See #other_phase and #request_phase
option :enable_login, true # See #other_phase
# Customization Options:
option :on_login, nil # See #request_phase
option :on_validation, nil # See #registration_phase
option :on_registration, nil # See #registration_phase
option :on_failed_registration, nil # See #registration_phase
option :locate_conditions, ->(req) { {model.auth_key => req.params["auth_key"]} }
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