Rails - Jun 2006 - rails + apache2 + mod_auth_mysql + headers

Hello list!

I must confess i am kinda new to rails and my experience is truly  
limited. I am searching to do a *quite* simple thing with rails.

I have a db. It has a table with users etc and works fine as it is. I  
now want to add some very simple authentication mechanism. Instead of  
authenticating through the use of a rails plugin that handles  
sessions etc, I want to be able to route the users by using  
mod_auth_mysql.

I run rails through apache2 and i am using mod_auth_mysql to  
authenticate a user to be allowed to see the rails project pages and  
it works so far. I placed the .htaccess correctly formed at the root  
of the project folder and the database table that holds the user data  
is the same the rails project uses.

I am now trying to access within rails data regarding the user as he  
authenticated through the apache2 plugin.

I was thinking this would be easy but I can see through ethereal only  
the session data (I think it''s called like this). How could I get  
more info regarding the user that just authenticated? Has anyone got  
similar experiences?

I googled the hell out of this combination and found nothing so far  
that could assist.

So the basic questions:

1) has anyone done something similar so far?
2) how do I read the headers (and e.g. print them) using rails

thnx for any advice!


--ktolis
http://iridium.csd.auth.gr/~ktolis

guess I am sort of pioneering atm!?

On Jun 16, 2006, at 1:01 AM, ????????? ?????????? wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> I must confess i am kinda new to rails and my experience is truly  
> limited. I am searching to do a *quite* simple thing with rails.
>
> I have a db. It has a table with users etc and works fine as it is.  
> I now want to add some very simple authentication mechanism.  
> Instead of authenticating through the use of a rails plugin that  
> handles sessions etc, I want to be able to route the users by using  
> mod_auth_mysql.
>
> I run rails through apache2 and i am using mod_auth_mysql to  
> authenticate a user to be allowed to see the rails project pages  
> and it works so far. I placed the .htaccess correctly formed at the  
> root of the project folder and the database table that holds the  
> user data is the same the rails project uses.
>
> I am now trying to access within rails data regarding the user as  
> he authenticated through the apache2 plugin.
>
> I was thinking this would be easy but I can see through ethereal  
> only the session data (I think it''s called like this). How could I
> get more info regarding the user that just authenticated? Has  
> anyone got similar experiences?
>
> I googled the hell out of this combination and found nothing so far  
> that could assist.
>
> So the basic questions:
>
> 1) has anyone done something similar so far?
> 2) how do I read the headers (and e.g. print them) using rails
>
> thnx for any advice!
>
>
> --ktolis
> http://iridium.csd.auth.gr/~ktolis
>
>
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--ktolis
http://iridium.csd.auth.gr/~ktolis