# heartcombo/devise

Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.

Repository: https://github.com/heartcombo/devise
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/devise
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: rails, ruby, authentication, devise
Last push: 2026-06-22T17:32:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 89/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 88, release rhythm 83, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6195, "days_push": 72, "days_rel": 117, "gap_med": 23.5, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 24358, forks 5473 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:37.044480+00:00)

## What it is
Devise is a flexible, modular authentication solution for Rails applications built on top of Warden. It provides complete MVC-based user authentication with ten optional modules covering registration, password recovery, email confirmation, session tracking, and account locking.

## Use cases
- add user sign-up and sign-in to a Rails app
- implement password reset via email
- add OAuth/social login with OmniAuth
- lock accounts after failed login attempts
- expire inactive user sessions
- track user sign-in counts and IP addresses
- support multiple simultaneous signed-in user models

## When to choose
- you are building a Rails app that needs full-featured user authentication out of the box
- you want modular auth where you enable only the features you need
- you need battle-tested, widely adopted authentication with a large community

## When to avoid
- you are not using Rails or Rack-based Ruby web frameworks
- you need a lightweight custom auth solution with minimal dependencies
- you need API-only token authentication without server-rendered sessions (consider devise-jwt or similar extensions)

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: auth, middleware
- domain: web-development, security, backend
- platform: ruby
- tags: rails, authentication, warden, user-management, sessions, omniauth, web-server

## Member repositories
- heartcombo/devise (main) score 89

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:37.044480+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:56:15.129787+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/heartcombo/devise (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:37.044480+00:00, sha 41d317e1977c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.