Example code for how a hosted solution would integrate with discourse

[rubydoob (Salman)]

There are hosted solutions that allow for integrating with discourse.

Is there any sample code of what the hosted solution would have to do to integrate with discourses login system?

Example, patreon has a plugin that enables patreon users to login to discourse. I’m looking for sample code of what a hosted solution like Patreon would have to do on their end to allow for this type of integration.

I might have my terminology wrong but this would be Patreon as a SSO provider correct?

Thanks!

[Falco]

Oh we have a fair bit of examples on that:

Discourse SSO in Nginx

If you are using Nginx (or the awesome OpenResty) to handle you user authentication, you can handle the Discourse SSO on the Nginx too! This assumes you are using the ideas on this article to handle authentication: The following code implements the Discourse SSO protocol in Lua, and even sets custom fields and the user birthday date for the cakeday plugin: -- First we inline this PR https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-string/pull/18 -- You can remove this after @agentzh merges this patch…

Bratwurst: the wurst possible production DiscourseConnect provider

I felt like making something the other night, so I implemented an DiscourseConnect provider that is useful for development and testing: The utility of this is to be able to configure an SSO backend so that you can test out the behaviour of Discourse with different scenarios from an external provider (e.g. “What happens if two users have the same email but different external IDs? What happens if the external ID changes? What happens if two users have the same username?”) It 100% trusts the us…

Bratwurst: the wurst possible production DiscourseConnect provider

Just adding this here in case someone is in need of yet another example of how to do this in ruby: https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-single-sign-on-for-discourse-sso/13045/372?u=blake https://github.com/oblakeerickson/sso_endpoint https://github.com/oblakeerickson/sso_endpoint/blob/master/README.md

Build software better, together

If your website uses Ruby and Rails, you can copy and paste the file https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/single_sign_on.rb on your lib directory to do all the heavy lifting and then add the necessary controller and route.