Epersonate Gem

Official Ruby Wrapper for EPersonate API.

EPersonate Documentation

Installation

gem install epersonate

Usage

require 'epersonate'

Using Personal Access Token

Go to https://epersonate.com/app/settings > Personal Access Token > Create Personal Access Token

Add this token to your environment variables.

epersonate = Epersonate.new(EPERSONATE_TOKEN)

Note: Replace EPERSONATE_TOKEN with the token generated before.

Example Usage

In a classic Rails application with a sessions_controller.rb

class SessionsController < ApplicationController

    def login
        (...)
        current_user(user)
    end

    def current_user=(user)
        @current_user = user
    end

    def current_user
        if (@current_user)
            return @current_user
        end

        impersonation = epersonate.verify({request: request})

        if (impersonation["valid"])
            @current_user = User.find(impersonation["userId"].to_i)
        else
            remember_token = User.hexdigest(cookies[:remember_token])
            @current_user ||= User.find_by(remember_token: remember_token)
        end
    end
end

Deploy

Update version in epersonate.gemspec

gem build epersonate.gemspec
gem push epersonate.x.x.x.gem