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That's awesome to hear you were able to get something working.

And yes, 100% with you on this one. It's a very non-Rails like experience going to Turbo Native. You have to configure everything pretty much on your own and are left to figure it out by yourself for new things.

One of my goals is to fix this in the near future!

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Although in the case of authentication, Rails has dropped the ball for over a decade on providing an out-of-the-box solution. Practically everyone uses Devise.

Even though the maintainers have pretty much said to use anything else!

I'm guilty myself. I know how Devise works, including all of its quirks, so I refuse to learn something new. I don't think Rails will ever have a built-in authentication solution. But I would love to see more official support for something a bit "lighter" than Devise. And that works out of the box with Turbo.

I believe the maintainers regard authentication, rightly or wrongly, as a business-level feature. Not so much the mechanics of checking a user's credentials but how you want to steer the different authentication flows.

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