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doorkeeper-gem
doorkeeper
Ruby2012–2022
doorkeeper-gem / doorkeeper

doorkeeper

Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.

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What it is

Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-07-24 16:47:49 UTC to 2022-05-17 14:42:26 UTC.

01232012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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mooreds·May 17, 2022
Disclosure: I work for FusionAuth. Depends on what you are looking for. If you want a standalone auth server, you can use FusionAuth in docker/docker-compose: https://fusionauth.io/docs/v1/tech/installation-guide/docker You can also package up a library; most major languages have one or more OAuth/OIDC libraries: https://github.com/doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper for Ruby, https://spring.io/projects/spring-security for Spring/Java, https://oauth2.thephpleague.com/ for PHP, https://pypi.org/project/oauthlib/ for Python. https://oauth.net/code/ has a further selection of libraries in a variety of languages.
In Zitadel: The best of Auth0 and Keycloak combined
mooreds·Mar 10, 2021
One thing that is missing from this list is open source language specific libraries. Projects such as https://oauthlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/oauth2/server.html and https://github.com/doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper Depending on your use case, for example if you only have one application, you might be better off running something embedded in your app, or independent but using the same runtime/deployment environment. Then, when you are ready to add another app or integration, you should be able to introduce a standalone auth system more easily if appropriate (because all your auth interactions should be relatively standardized). I'm a big fan of standalone auth systems as a way to simplify access control and give a single view of a user/customer, but you can also succeed using open source embedded libraries. When the moment comes to introduce
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a standalone system, you should consider a few dimensions (this list pulled from a previous comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26360048 ): * open source or not * standalone application or library/framework you integrate * self hosted or SaaS * authentication, authorization, user management or all three? * standards coverage * SSO support * integrations with other auth tech (LDAP) * which OAuth grants are supported * cost * operational complexity/support for your deployment environment * specific features if needed (for example, customization of the look and feel with themes, or customization of the login flow with something like Keycloak's plugin system) * documentation and developer experience These dimensions all matter to varying degrees depending on your team and needs. Disclosure: I work for https://fusionauth.io/ which has open source supporting libraries and docs, but which is itself not open source. EDIT: added cost, operational complexity and customization to the list.
In Authelia is an open-source authentication/authorization server with 2FA/SSO
nchuhoai·Jul 24, 2012
Making Oauth Providers seriously sucks. I kno people will out me for not being rigorous enough or not low-level enough, but I would really love if we could all band together and provide some reference, open source provider to build on top on. In the Rails world, Doorkeeper is a great example: https://github.com/applicake/doorkeeper/. However, I wish Doorkeeper were ORM agnostic as i can not use ActiveRecord nor Mongo. I would appreciate any hidden gems that others might have
In OAuth and API Providers: Come on guys.

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