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Add api key to every request in ActiveResource

Asked 2010-05-27T04:16:58.623
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I have 2 RESTful Rails apps I'm trying to make talk to each other. Both are written in Rails 3 (beta3 at the moment). The requests to the service will require the use an api key which is just a param that needs to be on every request. I can't seem to find any information on how to do this.

You define the url the resource connects to via the site= method. There should be an equivalent query_params= method or similar.

There is one good blog post I found related to this and it's from October 2008, so not exactly useful for Rails 3.

Update: I had a thought. Would a small Rack middleware or Metal be the answer to this? It could just pass through the request, tacking it's api_key on.

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An Active Resource Object behaves much like a (simplified) Active Record object. If you wish to pass through a new param, then you can set it on the AR object by adding it as an attribute. eg:

jane = Person.create(:first => 'Jane', :last => 'Doe', :api_key => THE_API_KEY)

it should pass the api_key as a parameter, along with all the others.

answered 2010-12-10T18:25:47.947

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