Hello all!
I am building an enterprise app on Ruby 2.6.5 and Rails 5.2.4.1 that uses ActionCable.
It has two different authentication schemes corresponding to the customer facing and employee facing sections of website. Likewise, I would like to be able to authenticate the ActionCable connection the same way, and be able to separate the customer & employee facing code as we have through the rest of the codebase.
ActionCable cannot use multiple classes that inherit ActionCable::Connection::Base. Additionally, the process through which ActionCable selects what connection class to use (https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/actioncable/lib/action_cable/engine.rb#L37) is entirely undocumented.
My current workaround is to use a class which delegates methods to both of my ActionCable::Connection::Base-inheriting classes, then silently throwing away the connection(s) that do not authenticate. Another possible workaround could be duplicating the ActionCable::Server class and mounting two separate instances on separate routes, but this seems far too heavy-handed to fix this situation.
I’d be willing to write the code and documentation & contribute it back to Rails to do something like this if it’s a feature that seems useful/necessary to you all.
Thanks all.
