# Silent Authentication on Ruby on Rails / Regular Web Apps

**URL:** <https://community.auth0.com/t/silent-authentication-on-ruby-on-rails-regular-web-apps/54355>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** rails, silent-authenticatio\
**Created:** [December 4, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/silent-authentication-on-ruby-on-rails-regular-web-apps/54355 "2020-12-04T12:58:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![cyrille.derche](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/cyrille.derche/32/26033_2.png) [@cyrille.derche](https://community.auth0.com/u/cyrille.derche)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/silent-authentication-on-ruby-on-rails-regular-web-apps/54355/1 "2020-12-04T12:58:31Z")

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Hello, we are trying to implement a feature to extend the session using inactivity timer as described in [Sessions - Auth0 Docs](https://auth0.com/docs/sessions-and-cookies).

Our application is a Regular Web App using Ruby on Rails. Our Auth0 integration is the one described in the Quickstart guide.

- What is the endpoint we need to call to extend the session?
- Should we be calling this endpoint with every request to our server?

From our reading, we need to configure silent authentication ([Configure Silent Authentication - Auth0 Docs](https://auth0.com/docs/authorization/configure-silent-authentication)). To achieve this we tried to use `/authorize` with `prompt=none`. But how is does Auth0 understand for with user this is?

Thank you