Instrumental Authentication extends Rails’ native auth with signup flows, profile management, dynamic avatars, and timezone awareness—installed and running in minutes.
For builders who love this stack:
Authentication is the front door to your app—and your users expect it to feel seamless and solid.
Instrumental Authentication builds on Rails 8’s new auth system and adds what’s missing: a smooth signup flow, full profile management, smart avatars, and automatic timezone detection—all wired up and ready in minutes.
No fuss. No brittle hacks. Just clean, reliable auth that feels native to your app and polished to your users.
Let’s make first impressions count—so you can earn trust from log-in to log-out.
Instrumental Authentication is a component that comes included with Instrumental Components.
It extends the official Rails 8 authentication generator with additional essential features like a smooth signup/registration flow, user profile management, dynamic avatars, timezone detection and more.
Instrumental Authentication is one of a growing list of App Components that comes included with Instrumental Components.
Instrumental Components is a premium components library designed for Ruby on Rails projects with the goal of helping you ship high-quality software products, fast.
You can use the provided gem to easily install each component on an as-needed basis. Or, you can use our provided starter app templates to get all components pre-installed in a new Rails app.
Instrumental Components license holders get access to component updates, new component releases, direct support, and access to our private community.
Yes. Before you install Instrumental Authentication, you must first install the Rails 8 authentication generator, which provides base functionality such as user sessions and login.
That's as simple as running: rails g authentication
After that, you can run: rails g instrumental:authentication
Then you're off to the races!
No, it does not. You'll need to use the official Rails 8 authentication generator in order to extend it with Instrumental's Authentication component.
There is not a free version available at this time.
Before purchase, feel free to watch the demo videos and browse the (ever-growing) documentation.
If you decide in the first 14-days after purchase that it's not for you, you can request to cancel your license and receive a full refund.
Unlimited!
Yep — You can use Instrumental Components on each and every one of your projects, without thinking twice about it.
Yes, if you purchase a team license. We offer both a solo developer license and a team license, which enables you to invite your teammates to use your account's license. For details, visit our pricing page.
If you have a larger team than the team license allows, get in touch to discuss a custom license for your team.
Yep! Scroll up to the in-depth demo video to see a detailed look and walkthrough of everything you get with Instrumental Authentication.
For more demos of all things Instrumental Components, click here and feel free to browse our (ever-growing) documentation.
Absolutely!
Click here to watch the demo videos and feel free to browse our (ever-growing) documentation.
Got questions? Feel free to get in touch.
There is not a free version available at this time.
Before purchase, feel free to watch the demo videos and browse the (ever-growing) documentation.
If you decide in the first 14-days after purchase that it's not for you, you can request to cancel your license and receive a full refund.
Yes, Instrumental Components is fully internationalized (I18n) out of the box so that you can easily serve your application in multiple languages.
If you decide in the first 14-days after purchase that it's not for you, you can request to cancel your license and receive a full refund.
If you have other questions, please get in touch.
Brian Casel (that's me, hi 👋) created Instrumental Components.
I'm a full-stack founder who's been building with Rails for years. Instrumental Components started as my own toolkit for building and shipping my own SaaS products, and I continue to use it and improve it every day!
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Extend Rails’ native auth with signup flows, profile management, dynamic avatars, and timezone awareness—installed and running in minutes.
