Configuring CORS headers

Depending on how you’ve setup your app, you may encounter a CORS error. It will look like this in your browser console:

In this case, you need to configure the right CORS headers to allow the domain app.forestadmin.com to trigger an API call on your Application URL, which is a different domain name (e.g. localhost:3000 on development).

Rails

We use the Rack CORS Gem for this purpose.

module YourApp
  class Application < Rails::Application
    # ...

    # For Rails 5, use the class Rack::Cors. For Rails 4, you MUST use the string 'Rack::Cors'.
    null_regex = Regexp.new(/\Anull\z/)
    config.middleware.insert_before 0, Rack::Cors do
      allow do
        hostnames = [null_regex, 'localhost:4200', 'app.forestadmin.com', 'localhost:3001']
        hostnames += ENV['CORS_ORIGINS'].split(',') if ENV['CORS_ORIGINS']
        origins hostnames
        resource '*',
          headers: :any,
          methods: :any,
          expose: ['Content-Disposition'],
          credentials: true
      end
    end
  end
end

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