Instant Oauth and OpenID support for your Rails and Sinatra Apps
AuthlogicConnect is an extension of the Authlogic library that adds complete Oauth and OpenID support to your application. It provides a single interface to Oauth 1.0 and Oauth 2.0.
It currently allows you to login with Github, Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, MySpace, Vimeo, and Yahoo Oauth providers, and all the OpenID providers. Feel free to add support for more as you need them.
Here's a live example on Heroku (with source). Here's the Docs
sudo gem install authlogic-connect
Rails 2.3.x: config/environment.rb
config.gem "json"
config.gem "authlogic"
config.gem "oauth"
config.gem "oauth2"
config.gem "authlogic-connect"
Rails 3: Gemfile
gem "ruby-openid"
gem "rack-openid", ">=0.2.1", :require => "rack/openid"
gem "authlogic", :git => "git://github.com/odorcicd/authlogic.git", :branch => "rails3"
gem "oauth"
gem "oauth2"
gem "authlogic-connect"
Do to some strange problem I have yet to really understand, Rails 2.3.5 doesn't like when OpenIdAuthentication.store is null, which means it uses the "in memory" store and for some reason fails.
So as a fix, if you are using Rails < 3, add these at the end of your config/environment.rb files:
In development mode:
OpenIdAuthentication.store = :file
In production (on Heroku primarily)
OpenIdAuthentication.store = :memcache
See the Rails 2 Example and Rails 3 Example projects to see what you need. Will add a generator sometime.
Files needed are:
- models: User, UserSession
- controllers: UsersController, UserSessionsController, ApplicationController
- migrations: create_users, create_sessions, create_tokens
- initializers: config/authlogic.example.yml, config/initializers/authlogic_connect_config.rb
- routes
In config/authlogic.yml, write your keys and secrets for each service you would like to support. You have to manually go to the websites and register with the service provider (list of those links coming soon, in token classes for now).
connect:
twitter:
key: "my_key"
secret: "my_secret"
label: "Twitter"
facebook:
key: "my_key"
secret: "my_secret"
label: "Facebook"
google:
key: "my_key"
secret: "my_secret"
label: "Google"
yahoo:
key: "my_key"
secret: "my_secret"
label: "Yahoo"
myspace:
key: "my_key"
secret: "my_secret"
vimeo:
key: "my_key"
secret: "my_secret"
linked_in:
key: "my_key"
secret: "my_secret"
These are then loaded via the initializer script in config/initializers/authlogic_connect_config.rb:
AuthlogicConnect.config = YAML.load_file("config/authlogic.yml")
Because of the redirects involved in Oauth and OpenID, you MUST pass a block to the save method in your UsersController and UserSessionsController:
@user_session.save do |result|
if result
flash[:notice] # "Login successful!"
redirect_back_or_default account_url
else
render :action => :new
end
end
If you don't use the block, we will get a DoubleRender error. We need the block to jump out of the rendering while redirecting.
Also, be sure to skip protect_from_forgery for actions using this. Even if logs say a GET request is issued, a POST route will need to bypass forgery protection in order to yield a result to the #save block when back from auth provider.
There are 3 things to include in your views.
First, you must specify whether this is for registration or login. This is stored in the authentication_type key with a value of user for registration and session for login:
%input{:type => :hidden, :name => :authentication_type, :value => :user}
Second, if you are using Oauth, you must include an input with name oauth_provider and value twitter or whatever other provider you might want (see example apps for dynamic example).
%input{:type => :radio, :id => :twitter_oauth_provider, :name => :oauth_provider, :value => :twitter}
Finally, if you are using OpenID, you must include an input with name openid_identifier, which is a text field with the value the user types in for their address:
%input.nice{:type => :text, :name => :openid_identifier}
Those are passed as parameters to Authlogic, and the complicated details are abstracted away.
There are 3 ways you a user can login with AuthlogicConnect:
- Clicking an Oauth Provider
- Clicking an OpenID Provider and entering in their username
- Manually typing in a full OpenID address
Oauth is very different from OpenID, but this aims to make them work the same.
These are examples of what you can get from a User. Code is placed in controller for demo purposes, it should be abstracted into the model.
User model has the following public accessors and methods. This example assumes:
- You've associated your Google, OpenID, and Twitter accounts with this app.
- You're currently logged in via Google.
Inside the show method in a controller...
def show
@user = @current_user
puts @user.tokens #=> [
#<OpenidToken id: 12, user_id: 9, type: "OpenidToken", key: "http://my-openid-login.myopenid.com/", token: nil, secret: nil, active: nil, created_at: "2010-05-24 14:52:19", updated_at: "2010-05-24 14:52:19">,
#<TwitterToken id: 13, user_id: 9, type: "TwitterToken", key: "my-twitter-id-123", token: "twitter-token", secret: "twitter-secret", active: nil, created_at: "2010-05-24 15:03:05", updated_at: "2010-05-24 15:03:05">,
#<GoogleToken id: 14, user_id: 9, type: "GoogleToken", key: "my-email@gmail.com", token: "google-token", secret: "google-secret", active: nil, created_at: "2010-05-24 15:09:04", updated_at: "2010-05-24 15:09:04">]
puts @user.tokens.length #=> 3
# currently logged in with...
puts @user.active_token #=> #<GoogleToken id: 14, user_id: 9, type: "GoogleToken", key: "my-email@gmail.com", token: "google-token", secret: "google-secret", active: nil, created_at: "2010-05-24 15:09:04", updated_at: "2010-05-24 15:09:04">
puts @user.authenticated_with #=> ["twitter", "openid", "google"]
puts @user.authenticated_with?(:twitter) #=> true
puts @user.authenticated_with?(:facebook) #=> false
puts @user.has_token?(:google) #=> true
puts @user.get_token(:google) #=> #<GoogleToken id: 14, user_id: 9, type: "GoogleToken", key: "my-email@gmail.com", token: "google-token", secret: "google-secret", active: nil, created_at: "2010-05-24 15:09:04", updated_at: "2010-05-24 15:09:04">
# change active_token
@user.active_token = @user.get_token(:twitter)
puts @user.active_token #=> #<TwitterToken id: 13, user_id: 9, type: "TwitterToken", key: "my-twitter-id-123", token: "twitter-token", secret: "twitter-secret", active: nil, created_at: "2010-05-24 15:03:05", updated_at: "2010-05-24 15:03:05">
# access oauth api
@twitter = @user.active_token
@twitter_profile = JSON.parse(@twitter.get("/account/verify_credentials.json").body) #=> twitter api stuff
# ...
end
If they've associated their Facebook account with your site, you can access Facebook data.
def show
@user = @current_user
token = @user.active_token # assuming this is FacebookToken
facebook = JSON.parse(token.get("/me"))
@profile = {
:id => facebook["id"],
:name => facebook["name"],
:photo => "https://graph.facebook.com/#{facebook["id"]}/picture",
:link => facebook["link"],
:title => "Facebook"
}
@profile = @user.profile
end
- Authlogic: http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic
- AuthlogicConnect Example Project: http://github.com/viatropos/authlogic-connect-example
- Live example with Twitter and Facebook using Rails 3: http://authlogic-connect.heroku.com
- Rails 2.3.5 Example: http://github.com/viatropos/authlogic-connect-example-rails2
- Rubygems Repository: http://rubygems.org/gems/authlogic-connect
Thanks for the people that are already extending the project, all the input making things move much faster. Andrew Cove and Daf have helped me quite a bit, thanks guys.
Feel free to add to the wiki if you figure things out or make new distinctions.
- Try to create a session
- Session logs into provider
- On success, if no user, redirect to User#create
- Build mechanize tool to automatically create applications with service providers.
- Add Andrew Cove's idea of a "Merge Code". So if user creates Facebook account logs out, and create Twitter account, a code they can use to pass to facebook account so it knows it's associated with Twitter.