Question

I’d like to integrate the sorcery-gem to achieve authentication while checking out in an online shop. I followed Ryan Bate’s Railscast episode 283 – authentication with Sorcery.

Given a vistor has put together some products in his session[:cart] and now wants to checkout. He clicks on “checkout” and the RailsApp checks if he is already logged in. If not, he will be redirected to sessions#new and got to log in.

The problem is that sorcery’s #login does a session_reset and so also session[:cart] will be destroyed.

Is there a nifty solution for that? I just can think of some, imho, dirty hacks like creating new controller actions or trying to save the cart temporarily in the database.

Cheers, CS

Answer 1

just do something like this in your session controller (the place you call login):

temp_cart = session[:cart]
login(…)
session[:cart] = temp_cart

This way you’ll hand your cart around the session reset.

Bests,
JJS