thoughtbot/clearance
Rails authentication with email & password. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
85/100
- Activity 92
- Release rhythm 68
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 69.0
- age_days: 6552
- days_rel: 138
- days_push: 48
- n_releases_24m: 7
Adoption not part of the score
3736 stars · 464 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Clearance is a Rails engine providing email and password authentication for Ruby on Rails applications. It offers opinionated defaults for sign-up, sign-in, password reset, and cookie-based sessions, all easily overridable via configuration.
Use cases
- add email and password authentication to a Rails app
- implement user sign-up and sign-in in Ruby on Rails
- handle password reset flows in Rails
- protect controller actions with a require_login filter
- manage remember-token cookies for persistent sessions
- replace Devise with a simpler authentication gem
When to choose
- you need simple, well-tested email/password auth in a Rails 7.2+ app
- you want opinionated defaults that are easy to override
- you prefer a small authentication engine over a full-featured framework like Devise
When to avoid
- you need OAuth, SAML, or multi-factor authentication out of the box
- you are not using Ruby on Rails
- you need API-token-based authentication rather than cookie sessions
Facets
library · maturity active
auth middleware routing web-development backend security developer-tools ruby rails rails-engine email-password-authentication rubygem bcrypt session-management web-server
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/thoughtbot/clearance · fetched 2026-08-28 · 359948c5ec23
- homepage: https://thoughtbot.com · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5510254df796
- site_page: https://thoughtbot.com/case-studies/closeknit-health · fetched 2026-08-29 · ec773542ed58
- site_page: https://thoughtbot.com/services · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5b152b8c27da
- site_page: https://thoughtbot.com/our-company · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9e2e18b981fb
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| thoughtbot/clearance | main | 85 |
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