Module: ActiveModel::SecurePassword::ClassMethods
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| Defined in: | activemodel/lib/active_model/secure_password.rb | 
Instance Method Summary
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      #has_secure_password(attribute = :password, validations: true)  
    
    Adds methods to set and authenticate against a BCrypt password. 
Instance Method Details
#has_secure_password(attribute = :password, validations: true)
Adds methods to set and authenticate against a BCrypt password. This mechanism requires you to have a XXX_digest attribute. Where XXX is the attribute name of your desired password.
The following validations are added automatically:
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Password must be present on creation 
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Password length should be less than or equal to 72 bytes 
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Confirmation of password (using a XXX_confirmationattribute)
If confirmation validation is not needed, simply leave out the value for XXX_confirmation (i.e. don’t provide a form field for it). When this attribute has a nil value, the validation will not be triggered.
For further customizability, it is possible to suppress the default validations by passing validations: false as an argument.
Add bcrypt (~> 3.1.7) to Gemfile to use #has_secure_password:
gem 'bcrypt', '~> 3.1.7'Example using Active Record (which automatically includes ::ActiveModel::SecurePassword):
# Schema: User(name:string, password_digest:string, recovery_password_digest:string)
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_secure_password
  has_secure_password :recovery_password, validations: false
end
user = User.new(name: 'david', password: '', password_confirmation: 'nomatch')
user.save                                                  # => false, password required
user.password = 'mUc3m00RsqyRe'
user.save                                                  # => false, confirmation doesn't match
user.password_confirmation = 'mUc3m00RsqyRe'
user.save                                                  # => true
user.recovery_password = "42password"
user.recovery_password_digest                              # => "$2a$04$iOfhwahFymCs5weB3BNH/uXkTG65HR.qpW.bNhEjFP3ftli3o5DQC"
user.save                                                  # => true
user.authenticate('notright')                              # => false
user.authenticate('mUc3m00RsqyRe')                         # => user
user.authenticate_recovery_password('42password')          # => user
User.find_by(name: 'david')&.authenticate('notright')      # => false
User.find_by(name: 'david')&.authenticate('mUc3m00RsqyRe') # => user# File 'activemodel/lib/active_model/secure_password.rb', line 61
def has_secure_password(attribute = :password, validations: true) # Load bcrypt gem only when has_secure_password is used. # This is to avoid ActiveModel (and by extension the entire framework) # being dependent on a binary library. begin require "bcrypt" rescue LoadError $stderr.puts "You don't have bcrypt installed in your application. Please add it to your Gemfile and run bundle install" raise end include InstanceMethodsOnActivation.new(attribute) if validations include ActiveModel::Validations # This ensures the model has a password by checking whether the password_digest # is present, so that this works with both new and existing records. However, # when there is an error, the message is added to the password attribute instead # so that the error message will make sense to the end-user. validate do |record| record.errors.add(attribute, :blank) unless record.public_send("#{attribute}_digest").present? end validates_length_of attribute, maximum: ActiveModel::SecurePassword::MAX_PASSWORD_LENGTH_ALLOWED validates_confirmation_of attribute, allow_blank: true end end