Send auth_token for authentication to ActionCable

Question

module ApplicationCable
  class Connection < ActionCable::Connection::Base
    identified_by :current_user

    def connect
      #puts params[:auth_token]
      self         


        

Answer 1

Another way (the way I did it in the end instead of my other answer) would be to have a authenticate action on your channel. I used this to determine the current user and set it in the connection/channel. All the stuff is send over websockets so credentials are not an issue here when we have it encrypted (i.e. wss).