simple_token_authentication | Simple token authentication for Rails apps | Authentication library

Read content of config/initializers/wrap_parameters.rb.

Then, either turn wrapping off (as described in comments of the file) OR permit parameters on key level like:

Try with

In the end I wound up not using SimpleTokenAuthentication and used my own code as follows:

That is because that gem says this behaviour of incorrect or no credentials is configurable.

What happens when a request is provided with no credentials or incorrect credentials is highly configurable

For denying access you have to set the fallback

If you have devise set it to fallback: :devise or fallback: :exception in your app/controllers/application_controller.rb

The error message is telling you that Devise defines a method named authenticate_user!, which takes one argument. You are overriding the method, but your method doesn't take any arguments. At some point, Devise makes the call authenticate_user!(some_arg_here), so you get the error explanation:

For each column in your database, ActiveRecord creates a method to both "set" and "get" the attribute (to the class, as a column represented in your database), named after the column on the class. In this case, the class is User, the column is confirmed_at.

What the error message is telling you is that there is no method on the User class. You can see methods by calling User.methods.

Without seeing your latest schema.rb file, I'm going to assume that you're missing the Devise confirmable migrations.

Create a new migration file, rails g migration AddConfirmableToUsers; head to db/migrations and open the corresponding migration file, and then copy-paste this in:

class AddConfirmableToUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration def change change_table(:users) do |t| # Confirmable t.string :confirmation_token t.datetime :confirmed_at t.datetime :confirmation_sent_at t.string :unconfirmed_email # Only if using reconfirmable end add_index :users, :confirmation_token, :unique => true end end

then invoke rake db:migrate.