Overriding ActiveResource::Connection clobbers any other HTTP Basic Auth

[theworkerant]

The code below makes it impossible to use Basic Auth anywhere else in your app once the lighthouse API gem is included.

Why not set self.user and self.password on the Lighthouse::Base which inherits from ActiveResource?

module ActiveResource
  class Connection
    private
      def authorization_header
        (Lighthouse.email || Lighthouse.password ? { 'Authorization' => 'Basic ' + ["#{Lighthouse.email}:#{Lighthouse.password}"].pack('m').delete("\r\n") } : {})
      end
  end
end 

[technoweenie]

The lighthouse gem was written when active resource was still beta, so it's likely the feature just didn't exist.

[theworkerant]

Oh.

Cheers.