Daniel A. wrote: > Hi! > > I'm not an expert on Rails, but I've been doing some recent > development with it. Right now, I have a working app with devise for > authentication. > > Moreover, I am building a chat with Node.js and Socket.io and I wanted > to embed the client side of the Node.js app in my Rails app, in order > to let users access the Rails app and then chat without having to > authenticate again for Node. > > Is there any way to do that and at the same time be able to retrieve > the current_username from the rails database?
I have two thoughts here, though I know nothing about Node.js and little about Ajax authentication: 1. Can you have Rails set a cookie and the JavaScript app read it (or vice versa)? 2. Perhaps *neither* the Rails app nor the JS app should do the authentication lookup. You might want to build a third app (probably a Rails REST service) that handles the lookup and gives back a token of some sort. Rails can use it through ActiveResource, and the JS app can use it through an Ajax call. > > Thanks Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
