openstax_auth

This is a fork of openstax/auth-rails that eliminates the ActiveSupport dependency as well as the no-longer-used "strategy 1".

Provides utilities to get user information from cookies within OpenStax rack-based apps.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'openstax_auth', git: 'https://github.com/openstax/auth-ruby.git', ref: 'some_commit_sha_here'

(this gem is not published to rubygems)

And then execute:

$ bundle

Usage

This gem contains strategies for extracting user information from cookies. As OpenStax authentication cookies evolve over time, new strategies will be added and old ones will no longer be used.

Strategy 2

The only strategy in this gem.

Configure the strategy_2 settings:

OpenStax::Auth.configure do |config|
  config.strategy2.signature_public_key = "blah"
  config.strategy2.encryption_private_key = "blah"
  config.strategy2.cookie_name = "blah"
  config.strategy2.encryption_algorithm = 'dir'
  config.strategy2.encryption_method = 'A256GCM'
  config.strategy2.signature_algorithm = 'RS256'
end

And then require 'openstax/auth/strategy_2' in the code that needs it.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.