facebook - Devise and OmniAuth remembering OAuth

Question

So, I just got setup using Rails 3, Devise and OmniAuth via https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/OmniAuth:-Overview.

I'm successfully authenticating users via Facebook, but they are not "rememberable" despite being marked with:

devise [...]: rememberable, :omniauthable

I tried calling:

@the_user.remember_me!

...to no avail. No cookie is being stored/set which means the user does not persist across sessions.

Has anybody managed to get a user sourced from FB remembered via cookies? In my mind, this should be happening automatically.

Thanks for any ideas or feedback you guys might have.

Answer 1

I'd like to elaborate on the (correct) answer @jeroen-van-dijk gave above which worked for me.

In config/routes.rb, add a new route in the devise_for block:

devise_for :users, :controllers => {
                     :omniauth_callbacks => "user_omniauth_callbacks" } do
  ...
  get '/users/connect/:network', :to => redirect("/users/auth/%{network}"),
                                 :as => 'user_oauth_connect'

end

Then change your "login using facebook" link to use the new route:

<!-- before it linked to user_omniauth_authorize_path -->
<%= link_to "Sign in using Facebook", user_oauth_connect_path(:facebook) %>

In app/controllers/user_omnniauth_callbacks_controller.rb

class UserOmniauthCallbacksController < Devise::OmniauthCallbacksController
  include Devise::Controllers::Rememberable

  def facebook
    @user = User.find(...)
    ...
    remember_me(@user) # set the remember_me cookie
  end
end

This solution works well for me using Rails 3.1 and Devise 1.4.9.