# Integration with plone site--insane?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integration-with-plone-site-insane/152430>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 3, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integration-with-plone-site-insane/152430 "2008-11-03T21:53:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![rpardee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@rpardee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rpardee)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integration-with-plone-site-insane/152430/1 "2008-11-03T21:53:04Z")

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Hey All,

My group has a plone-based public web portal thingy that a contractor  
provides for us, w/all the usual CMS goodies (contacts; news items,  
hierarchical folder structure, etc.).

Quite independently of that, they asked me to create a  
project/collaboration tracking application (who’s involved w/what  
project, in what capacity, etc.) which I took as an opportunity to learn  
RoR. The plone thing runs at the contractor’s & is accessible from  
several different organizations (a requirement). The RoR app just runs  
here at my site on our intranet (w/out any security at all).

Management may be moving toward the \<\> + \<\> =  
\<\<super web app!\>\> arithmatic, and it’s giving me a queasy feeling.

Has anybody tried to integrate a plone site & a ror app? Single-sign-on  
is the most desired thing I believe, tho sharing lists of people &  
contact info etc. would also be nice. Any pointers/advice would be most  
appreciated.

Thanks!

-Roy

Roy P.  
Research Analyst/Programmer  
Group Health Center For Health Studies (Cancer Research Network)  
(206) 287-2078  
Google Talk: rpardee

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**Author:** ![rpardee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@rpardee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rpardee)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integration-with-plone-site-insane/152430/2 "2008-11-04T02:32:36Z")

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> Roy P. wrote:  
> Has anybody tried to integrate a plone site & a ror app? Single-sign-on  
> is the most desired thing I believe, tho sharing lists of people &  
> contact info etc. would also be nice. Any pointers/advice would be most  
> appreciated.

What about OpenID? On the plone side have them add OpenID support.  
[http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/openid-support](http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/openid-support)

On the RoR side do the same.  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/openid](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/openid)

Cheers.

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**Author:** ![rpardee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@rpardee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rpardee)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integration-with-plone-site-insane/152430/3 "2008-11-04T17:20:24Z")

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Thanks! I wondered about that. Does OpenID do actual single-sign on,  
or is it more that you can use the same credentials from site to site?

I think if I put my app out in the wild I’ll try to do openid. The  
trick will be getting the contractor to make that an option for the  
plone site. They’re using a customized version & serving it out to a  
pretty large customer base, and so even adding plug-ins (or whatever  
they’re called) is a Big Deal. Or so they tell me anyway. 😛

Thanks much for the response.

-Roy