After having watched Ryan's excellent Railcast Simple OmniAuth, I've managed to implement authentication in my app.
Everything is working fine, but in my view I have links that look like this:
<%= link_to 'Sign in with Twitter', '/signin/twitter' %>
<%= link_to 'Sign in with Facebook', '/signin/facebook' %>
I was wondering if there is an elegant way to create a named route to replace that with:
<%= link_to 'Sign in with Twitter', signin_twitter_path %>
<%= link_to 'Sign in with Facebook', signin_facebook_path %>
or:
<%= link_to 'Sign in with Twitter', signin_path(:twitter) %>
<%= link_to 'Sign in with Facebook', signin_path(:facebook) %>
OmniAuth already handles those routes... In my routes.rb
file I only have stuff for callbacks and signing out:
match '/signin/:provider/callback' => 'sessions#create'
match '/signout' => 'sessions#destroy', :as => :signout
So I don't know where I could create those named routes.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
Notice that in link_to, you're just providing a string for the route argument. So you can just define a method in a helpers file.
# application_helper.rb
module ApplicationHelper
def signin_path(provider)
"/auth/#{provider.to_s}"
end
end
# view file
<%= link_to 'Sign in with Twitter', signin_path(:twitter) %>
If you want to get all meta
# application_helper.rb
module ApplicationHelper
def method_missing(name, *args, &block)
if /^signin_with_(\S*)$/.match(name.to_s)
"/auth/#{$1}"
else
super
end
end
end
#view file
<%= link_to 'Sign in with Twitter', signin_with_twitter %>
Add this to your routes.rb
get "/auth/:provider", to: lambda{ |env| [404, {}, ["Not Found"]] }, as: :oauth
Now you can use oauth_path
url helper to generate urls.
Eg. oauth_path(:facebook) # => /auth/facebook
With Rails 3 you can do :
# routes.rb
match '/signin/:provider/callback' => 'sessions#create', :as => :signing
#view.erb
<%= link_to 'twitter', signing_path(:provider => 'twitter') %>
<%= link_to 'facebook', signing_path(:provider => 'facebook') %>