/ be me
/ be working on new Rails API web app
/ ...I can't. I hate this format
...so I was looking up how to do simple, secure authentication in Rails for my super secret project which you definitely can't find by looking at recent activity on my [GitHub account] (Hail [Mammon][[0][zero]]) and realized that I hadn't implemented authentication in Rails in a long time. The closest I'd come to was throwing [Devise] into my app and grumpily remembering to configure the mailer after the fact.
This will seem unrelated, but bear with me: I learned how to calculate interest rates on loans in something like 6th grade. I have since forgotten how to do that without assistance. Much like how I would have been much better prepared to choose a mortgage back then, I would in some ways be much better prepared to figure out authentication a few years ago when I was just starting out in web dev - and had just implemented it from the [Hartl tutorial]. That said, just like how I now know more of what I'm looking for