Sharing Sessions Between Apps

[Nicholas Young]

Hello,

I'm currently developing a middle-size CMS on top of Sinatra. Since
I'm trying to add in whatever features I might want going forward, I'm
definetely thinking about expansion -- plugins and etc. Here's what
I'm thinking:

1) a main Sinatra application (using the Sinatra::Base method of
construction, and using Authlogic to authenticate the user) to
maintain the page content on the site.

2) The first plugin will be a blog, with all of the posts being
indexed at /posts or something.

What I want to do is share sessions between the various apps, so the
user doesn't have to maintain two different accounts, or login twice.

Is this doable, and if so, how?

Thanks!

-Nicholas

[Ben Lovell]

2009/11/15 Nicholas Young <nich...@nicholaswyoung.com>

Hancock is a pretty neat single sign-on server for sinatra. Should meet your needs:

http://atmos.org/index.php/2009/03/20/hancock-a-single-sign-on-server-in-sinatra/

Cheers,

Ben 

[Nicholas Young]

Thanks, Ben! I'm going to dig into that today.

Nicholas 

[Nicholas Young]

Okay, so after some thought and review, it appears that Hancock is a
bit too complex for what I'm trying to do. (The end users don't need
to deal with an SSO in this case.)

So, I did a bit of digging, and found what I believe to be a solution
over in the Authlogic group. (http://groups.google.com/group/authlogic/
browse_thread/thread/6cf49ea337eb62af/f388305ee4157a61?
lnk=gst&q=sharing+session#f388305ee4157a61) I thought I would post it
here, just in case somebody is trying to do the same thing and gets
stuck.

Cheers!

-Nicholas

On Nov 15, 6:14 am, Nicholas Young <nicho...@nicholaswyoung.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Ben! I'm going to dig into that today.
>
> Nicholas
>

> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Ben Lovell <benjamin.lov...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> > 2009/11/15 Nicholas Young <nicho...@nicholaswyoung.com>

>
> >> Hello,
>
> >> I'm currently developing a middle-size CMS on top of Sinatra. Since
> >> I'm trying to add in whatever features I might want going forward, I'm
> >> definetely thinking about expansion -- plugins and etc. Here's what
> >> I'm thinking:
>
> >> 1) a main Sinatra application (using the Sinatra::Base method of
> >> construction, and using Authlogic to authenticate the user) to
> >> maintain the page content on the site.
>
> >> 2) The first plugin will be a blog, with all of the posts being
> >> indexed at /posts or something.
>
> >> What I want to do is share sessions between the various apps, so the
> >> user doesn't have to maintain two different accounts, or login twice.
>
> >> Is this doable, and if so, how?
>
> >> Thanks!
>
> >> -Nicholas
>
> > Hancock is a pretty neat single sign-on server for sinatra. Should meet
> > your needs:
>

> >http://atmos.org/index.php/2009/03/20/hancock-a-single-sign-on-server...
>
> > Cheers,
> > Ben