Do you run a Rails website that allows traditional username/email/password login and OpenID authentication? Do you know for sure that your “remember me” feature is working? Please do check…I’ll wait…
Good, now that you realize your “remember me” feature is not working for the OpenID login on your site, I’ll show you an easy way to hack it into the latest version of the open_id_authentication plugin. My preferred method to hack plugins is the evil twin technique.
The basic problem here is that your login form’s parameter list is not being passed back to your application after authenticity is checked at the OpenID provider. You have a remember_me checkbox, and, dammit, you want that parameter passed through. (Program note: some say this is not proper technique. I’m just trying to get you a solution, however temporary that may be.)
We need to hack the opend_id_redirect_url method:
open_id_request.return_to_args[‘open_id_complete’] = ‘1′
open_id_request.redirect_url(root_url, return_to || requested_url)
end
Using the evil twin technique, create an “open_id_authentication_hacks” folder in your vendor/plugins directory. Within this directory, create an “init.rb” file and add the following:
private
def open_id_redirect_url_with_remember_me(open_id_request, return_to = nil)
open_id_request.return_to_args[‘remember_me’] = params[‘remember_me’]
open_id_redirect_url_without_remember_me(open_id_request, return_to)
end
alias_method_chain :open_id_redirect_url, :remember_me
end
Now you have a nicely aliased method that includes the remember_me parameter upon returning to your app.
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Very cool. Thanks for fixing that!
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