Angular and Rails are frameworks that leave the decision of authentication up to you. You can do token authentication, basic authentication, OAuth, OAuth2, or

Angular and Rails are frameworks that leave the decision of authentication up to you. You can do token authentication, basic authentication, OAuth, OAuth2, or even roll your own. For a rails api <-> angular combo, I usually stick to token or OAuth 1/2 authentication. I have open sourced an angular application (technically ionic but it uses angular under the hood) and the rails api that it uses as a backend which uses token authentication. https://github.com/johnkelly/mojave https://github.com/johnkelly/mojave https://github.com/johnkelly/kalahari https://github.com/johnkelly/kalahari