Socky Authentication Module

$ gem install socky-authenticator

First require authenticator:

require 'socky/authenticator'

After that call:

Socky::Authenticator.authenticate(<data>)

where <data> is Socky Client authentication data in Hash or JSON-encoded Hash format.

In return you will receive authentication Hash in format:

{ 'auth' => <auth_data> }

If any error occurs then authenticator will raise ArgumentError with explanation.

If you are validating presence channel then except auth data you will receive user data in JSON-encoded format:

{ 'auth' => <auth_dat>, 'data' => <json-encoded_user_data> }

Before authenticating request you will need to provide application secret. If you are using only one Socky application in code then you can set it once using:

Socky::Authenticator.secret = <secret>

Otherwise you will need to provide secret each time when authenticating data.

Except of that you can enable or disable authenticaton of user rights - if disabled(default) then user will not be able to change their rights. Full version of authenticator call will look like that:

Socky::Authenticator.authenticate(<data>, :allow_changing_rights => true, :secret => 'mysecret')

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Copyright (c) 2011 Bernard Potocki

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