testing an API with postman & simulating logged in user in request

Question

I am building an API in ruby on rails. The API has a authentification system created with Devise. I wanted to test my API methods using postman with http request but everytime I try I get the following response :

{
  "error": "You need to sign in or sign up before continuing."
}

How can I simulate a logged in user in my postman request to make my request work ? Or is there a better way to test my API ?

Need more information. What type of authentication is the API using? Is it token based? — Bart Jedrocha, Jan 22 '16 at 12:55
I am not really sure, I know the auth system was created with devise & that in the schema the users table has an authentication_token column — David Geismar, Jan 22 '16 at 13:15
May duplicate this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4627703/using-devise-tokens-to-log-in-is-this-built-in — Hieu Pham, Jan 22 '16 at 13:29

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 22 '16 at 13:48

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You need a token based authentication to properly authenticate an api with devise. Token authentication is no longer included in devise gem but there is another gem called devise_token_auth that uses devise for authenticating apis using tokens.

It sends authentication headers in the response headers after a successful first sign in using email and password, you have to use these headers for every other request that you send to the application to be properly auhenticated.

answered Jan 22 '16 at 13:48

Optimus Pette

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In that case, is there a way to force Postman to refresh token header for next request each time after a new one has come in previous response? – dhilt Oct 12 '17 at 15:03

testing an API with postman & simulating logged in user in request

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