Add api key to every request in ActiveResource

Question

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 ap

Answer 1

I'd recommend that you have a base class inheriting from ActiveResource::Base and override the self.collection_path and self.element_path class methods to always inject the API KEY something like:

class Base < ActiveResource::Base
  def self.collection_path(prefix_options = {}, query_options = {})
   super(prefix_options, query_options.merge(api_key: THE_API_KEY))
  end

  def self.element_path(id, prefix_options = {}, query_options = {})
    super(id, prefix_options, query_options.merge(api_key: THE_API_KEY))
  end
end

class User < Base; end

User.all # GET /users/?api_key=THE_API_KEY

This will always inject your API_KEY in your ActiveResource method calls.