Small rack middleware to block your site from unwanted vistors. A little bit more convenient than basic auth - browser will ask you once for the password and then set a cookie to remember you - unlike the http basic auth it wont prompt you all the time.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rack_password'

Let's assume you want to password protect your staging environemnt. Add something like this to config/environments/staging.rb

config.middleware.use RackPassword::Block, auth_codes: ['janusz']

From now on, your staging app should prompt for janusz password before you access it.

You can also provide custom validator:

config.middleware.use RackPassword::Block, auth_codes: ['janusz'], custom_rule: proc { |request| request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT'].include?('facebook') }

• If you use server ip address instead of domain name to visit your webpage using chrome, rack_password will not accept any password, including the correct one. As a workaround, please use wildcard DNS service, such as xip.io or set cookie_domain option to match server IP address.

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/netguru/rack_password/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request