Ruby: Get currently logged in user on windows

Question

In C# I can get the current user of a web app using the HttpContext, however, I can\'t figure out how to do this in Ruby. Is there any way of doing this?

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Answer 1

I think what you mean is how you can retrieve the username that the user used to login to the web application. That will differ depending on what authentication mechanism you're using. Some Apache authentication modules, for example, will pass REMOTE_USER (e.g. the Kerberos module), the CAS Single-Sign-On module passes CAS-USER, etc. Standard digest authentication and such uses the Authentication header. You should be able to access these using request.env[HEADER] as someone else pointed out above. Check out the documentation on how your authentication layer is passing on the user in the HTTP request.