Authenticating using wordpress authentication system

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Hi,

I have integrated wordpress into a rails application. I am using Rails to build a few additional applications on top of Wordpress. Wordpress already has a user authentication system. I want to make use of this system and let Wordpress do the user management instead of building another one in Rails app. But Wordpress authentication is build using PHP. So I can't directly call those functions in my Rails app. What's the best way to solve this?

Thanks much.

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I am looking for the same thing (using Wordpress authentication in a Rails application) - Did anybody solve this already?

Reading the Wordpress documentation it seems solvable - access the wordpress database from the Rails application, duplication the wordpress cookie handling to have single sign on. However, it would be nice to use some code already doing this instead of starting from scratch :wink: