FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.
Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
The goal of this cheatsheet is to make it easy to add hand-rolled authentication to any rails app in a series of layers.
First the simplest/core layers, then optional layers depending on which features/functionality you want.
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| AUTHOR | Ira Herman |
| LANGUAGE/STACK | Ruby on Rails Version 4, 5, or 6 |
| https://youtu.be/-C-JoyNuQJs?t=39m45s | |
| When I put the reference implementation onto the website I needed to | |
| put a software license on it. | |
| And I looked at all the licenses that were available, and there were a lot | |
| of them. And I decided that the one I liked the best was the MIT License, | |
| which was a notice that you would put on your source and it would say, | |
| "you're allowed to use this for any purpose you want, just leave the | |
| notice in the source and don't sue me." |
