This is a lot of the reason that I don't recommend that students use something like Devise right off the bat. Putting things in middlewares is pretty great for

This is a lot of the reason that I don't recommend that students use something like Devise right off the bat. Putting things in middlewares is pretty great for separation of concerns, but it's confusing as hell if you need to figure out how something is done, and it's nowhere to be found in your source.