[LRUG] Omniauth for Facebook Login fails unusually...

Matt Gibson downrightlies at gmail.com
Wed May 10 06:16:42 PDT 2017


Have a look at the DB column you’re storing the auth token in. We had a similar issue and it turned out that the FB auth tokens were not always the same length and sometimes exceeded the available space, so were truncated. 



> On 10 May 2017, at 12:34, Alex McLintock <alex at owal.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Folks, 
> 
> Do many people here use Omniauth (+Devise) for Facebook login? Are there any alternatives? 
> 
> it seems like it is failing for me in unusual ways. I've been looking at the issue queue and am thinking it is a clash between users having an account without Facebook - and a separate account with the Facebook login. 
> 
> I am also surprised that there isn't more code which makes use of Koala for storing things like Friends, Likes, and so on. 
> 
> In case anyone is willing to test it the Facebook login is on most of the site at 
> 
> https://app.socialconsumer.co.uk/ <https://app.socialconsumer.co.uk/>
> 
> It seems like it currently fails for *my* Facebook account, but not for others.
> 
> Alex
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