Setting @current_user in authenticable.rb

[hzalaz]

In authenticable.rb the @current_user is retrieved like this

@current_user = User.find(payload['user_id'])

but since there is no User model in the lib it will force whoever who uses knock to have a model named User and expect a claim named user_id to be present in the JWT.
What I'd like to have is a way to define how the user is retrieved from my DB, e.g. in my app's config/knock.rb I could have:

config.current_user_from_token = -> (claims) { User.find(claims['sub']) }

and then in authenticable.rb

@current_user = Knock.current_user_from_token.call(payload)

This will allow to fetch the user from any model using any claim in the JWT

[nsarno]

The gem in its original version is very opinionated as it's pulled from personal use cases. But I totally agree that it should evolve towards a more generic solution.

Thank you for your suggestions, I implemented them. This should resolve the issue.

[nsarno]

I released a new version of the gem (1.2.0)