ActiveAdmin is an invaluable tool for doing MVP’s or quick Prototypes in Rails. But most of the time I don’t want to include Devise or some other authentication solution. Which make HTTP Basic Authentication the simplest solution. This is how to (insecurely) secure you ActiveAdmin install with HTTP Basic Authentication: # config/initializers/active_admin.rb
Rails.configuration.to_prepare do
ActiveAdmin::BaseController.class_eval do
http_basic_authenticate_with name: 'some username', password: 'password'
end
end
