Cheapskate

Seamlessly jump to a separate domain for HTTPS login and then back.

The below information is a work in progress. Don't use this yet; it isn't ready.

OK, here's how this works. First, obviously, you add cheapskate to your Gemfile:

gem 'cheapskate'

The gem provides its own Rails engine, which adds the following to your app:

POST /login
GET  /logged_in

POST /register
GET  /registered

• SingleUseLogin
• SingleUseNotice

Both the /logged_in and /registered routes redirect back to Cheapskate::CONFIG['ROOT_PATH'], which defaults to "/".

Internally much of the logic where the gem hooks into your application is found in the Cheapskate::Client module. You can include this module and override any of these methods if you want:

• create_user(params) - will create user from params[:user] with keys :name and :email (and password w/ confirmation) by default
• find_user(params) - will look up user by params[:email] by default
• authenticate_user(user, params)
• user_name(user)
• store_user_in_session(user, session) - will set session[:user_id] = user.id by default
• alert_notice(controller, message) - uses flash[:notice] by default
• alert_error(controller, message) - uses flash[:notice] by default

If you implement your own client (by defining a class that includes Cheapskate::Client), Cheapskate will automatically use your implementation.