Send auth_token for authentication to ActionCable

Question

module ApplicationCable
  class Connection < ActionCable::Connection::Base
    identified_by :current_user

    def connect
      #puts params[:auth_token]
      self         


        

Answer 1

In case any of you would like to use ActionCable.createCustomer. But have renewable token as I do:

const consumer = ActionCable.createConsumer("/cable")
const consumer_url = consumer.url
Object.defineProperty(
  consumer, 
  'url', 
  {
      get: function() { 
        const token = localStorage.getItem('auth-token')
        const email = localStorage.getItem('auth-email')
        return consumer_url+"?email="+email+"&token="+token
      }
  });
return consumer; 

Then in case that the connection is lost it will be opened with a fresh new token.