Turn omniauth facebook login into a popup

Question

I\'m using the omniauth gem with rails and it works great with loging in users, but everytime it takes you to the fb login page then redirects you back. I was wondering if

Answer 1

Posting in case it helps others. I was using Chris Heald's answer but ran into trouble with the final bit of javascript closing any new window links. For example, if I posted a link to my site onto Facebook, when users clicked the link the new window would automatically close in Chrome because the condition only checks for "if(window.opener)"

I ended up solving this with the use of a global variable (popupValue). There may be more elegant solutions but thought I'd share in case others hit the same issue:

function popupCenter(url, width, height, name) {
 var left = (screen.width/2)-(width/2);
 var top = (screen.height/2)-(height/2);
 popupValue = "on";
 return window.open(url, name, "menubar=no,toolbar=no,status=no,width="+width+",height="+height+",toolbar=no,left="+left+",top="+top     );
}

$(document).ready(function(){
$("a.popup").click(function(e) {
popupCenter($(this).attr("href"), $(this).attr("data-width"), $(this).attr("data-height"), "authPopup");
e.stopPropagation(); return false;
});


if(window.opener && window.opener.popupValue === 'on') {
 delete window.opener.popupValue;
 window.opener.location.reload(true);
 window.close()
}
});