# Integrating RForum with app using acts\_as\_authenticated

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-rforum-with-app-using-acts-as-authenticated/57621>\
**Category:** Ruby-Forum\
**Created:** [April 12, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-rforum-with-app-using-acts-as-authenticated/57621 "2006-04-12T15:49:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![erik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/b5ac83/32.png) [@erik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erik)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-rforum-with-app-using-acts-as-authenticated/57621/1 "2006-04-12T15:49:03Z")

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I have have a small app based on an existing user system  
(acts\_as\_authenticated) and I’d like to add the RForum functionality but  
without requiring the user’s to register/login in twice.

I’m wondering what approaches people have used for this (if any?),  
should I try and:

a) migrate my apps user system to the RForum one

b) reconfigure RForum to use a different table than user’s for its  
accounts and copy the data over when a customer makes changes

c) be looking to run then both as completley different apps using  
different databases (how would that work with sessions?)

Any ideas or suggestions appreciated

Erik

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**Author:** ![erik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/b5ac83/32.png) [@erik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erik)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-rforum-with-app-using-acts-as-authenticated/57621/2 "2006-05-17T14:26:27Z")

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Erik wrote:

> I have have a small app based on an existing user system  
> (acts\_as\_authenticated) and I’d like to add the RForum functionality but  
> without requiring the user’s to register/login in twice.
> 
> I’m wondering what approaches people have used for this (if any?),  
> should I try and:
> 
> a) migrate my apps user system to the RForum one
> 
> b) reconfigure RForum to use a different table than user’s for its  
> accounts and copy the data over when a customer makes changes
> 
> c) be looking to run then both as completley different apps using  
> different databases (how would that work with sessions?)
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions appreciated
> 
> Erik

Hello Erik,

My opinion would be to hack RForum to allow it to use another table user  
for the triplets login/password/e-mail.

I don’t know yet what lies beneath RForum, being a complete rookie in  
Ruby programming ^^;; , but I have a website project lying in a corner  
of my brains, and that is the way I want to follow to integrate my  
website to RForum. The forum should be the one which will integrate to  
the rest of the website, not the opposite.

Regards,

Jean-Marc