Migrate from Devise to Rails authentication generator

Although Devise is a fantastic authentication library, I’ve been reaching for Rails’s built in authentication generator since it was introduced in Rails 8. Almost all of my hobby apps are for a single user (me!) so I don’t really need all the features of devise. Recently, I finally removed devise from an old project and replaced it with the generated authentication code. This turned out to be far easier than expected. Here are my notes:.