The latest articles on DEV Community by Panos Dalitsouris (@panoscodes). https://dev.to/panoscodes https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F208032%2Fc287bc9b-2853-4433-a5de-984eda536ddd.png https://dev.to/panoscodes en Panos Dalitsouris Mon, 07 Oct 2019 19:09:46 +0000 https://dev.to/panoscodes/get-the-current-user-in-actioncable-4d9b https://dev.to/panoscodes/get-the-current-user-in-actioncable-4d9b <h4> An easy way to get the current user using <a href="https://github.com/waiting-for-dev/devise-jwt">devise-jwt</a> </h4> <p>When you “login”, <strong>devise-jwt</strong> returns an Authorization header with a token<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Miwic3ViIjoiMiIsInNjcCI6InVzZXIiLCJhdWQiOm51bGwsImlhdCI6MTU3MDM4OTcyNiwiZXhwIjoxNTcwMzkzMzI2LCJqdGkiOiI1NGZmY2YyOC1iNGFhLTQ3NDMtYTU5My1iOWJkYmIzNDRiOTIifQ.hcBKHd9n4r4s9-pHyshDyVm9zHnjF33SXXTQyGZljEY </code></pre> </div> <p>You probably already know that.</p> <p>According to the <a href="https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/action_cable_overview.html#connection-setup">docs</a> if you are using cookies you can do the following to get the current user<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight ruby"><code><span class="n">verified_user</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">User</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nf">find_by</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="ss">id: </span><span class="n">cookies</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nf">encrypted</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="ss">:user_id</span><span class="p">])</span> </code></pre> </div> <p>In case you use devise-jwt you could use following inside your connection.rb to find_verified_user 🎊</p> <div class="ltag_gist-liquid-tag"> </div> rails actioncable