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Configuring your Twitter4R App with OAuth Susan Potter (@SusanPotter) Twitter4R (@t4ruby) March 2011
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Configuring your Twitter4R App with OAuth
Susan Potter(@SusanPotter)
Twitter4R(@t4ruby)
March 2011
OAuth. . .
• sucks to configure• but it is better than users
passing 3rd party apps their clear passwords• 3rd party apps don’t need
to store passwords that are decryptable
OAuth. . .
• sucks to configure• but it is better than users
passing 3rd party apps their clear passwords• 3rd party apps don’t need
to store passwords that are decryptable
OAuth. . .
• sucks to configure• but it is better than users
passing 3rd party apps their clear passwords• 3rd party apps don’t need
to store passwords that are decryptable
In this screencast we will. . .
• set up a new Twitter apphttps://twitter.com/apps/new
• configure consumer tokensevery app has a key and a secret; secret should be ’secret’
• getting access tokens for userapps need to retrieve access tokens for each user
• use access tokensstore access tokens (key and secret) for each user
In this screencast we will. . .
• set up a new Twitter apphttps://twitter.com/apps/new
• configure consumer tokensevery app has a key and a secret; secret should be ’secret’
• getting access tokens for userapps need to retrieve access tokens for each user
• use access tokensstore access tokens (key and secret) for each user
In this screencast we will. . .
• set up a new Twitter apphttps://twitter.com/apps/new
• configure consumer tokensevery app has a key and a secret; secret should be ’secret’
• getting access tokens for userapps need to retrieve access tokens for each user
• use access tokensstore access tokens (key and secret) for each user
In this screencast we will. . .
• set up a new Twitter apphttps://twitter.com/apps/new
• configure consumer tokensevery app has a key and a secret; secret should be ’secret’
• getting access tokens for userapps need to retrieve access tokens for each user
• use access tokensstore access tokens (key and secret) for each user
Setting up a new Twitter app
• Go to twitter.com• Login to your account• Fill in form at twitter.com/apps/new• Copy consumer tokens
Setting up a new Twitter app
• Go to twitter.com• Login to your account• Fill in form at twitter.com/apps/new• Copy consumer tokens
Setting up a new Twitter app
• Go to twitter.com• Login to your account• Fill in form at twitter.com/apps/new• Copy consumer tokens
Setting up a new Twitter app
• Go to twitter.com• Login to your account• Fill in form at twitter.com/apps/new• Copy consumer tokens
Configuring consumer tokens
# In a Rails 2.3 / 3.x app this might be# in: config/initializers/twitter4r.rbTwitter Client.configure do |config|config.oauth_consumer_token = CONSUMER_KEYconfig.oauth_consumer_secret = CONSUMER_SECRET
end
Configuring consumer tokens
# In a Rails 2.3 / 3.x app this might be# in: config/initializers/twitter4r.rbTwitter Client.configure do |config|config.oauth_consumer_token = CONSUMER_KEYconfig.oauth_consumer_secret = CONSUMER_SECRET
end
Configuring consumer tokens
# In a Rails 2.3 / 3.x app this might be# in: config/initializers/twitter4r.rbTwitter Client.configure do |config|config.oauth_consumer_token = CONSUMER_KEYconfig.oauth_consumer_secret = CONSUMER_SECRET
end
Configuring consumer tokens
# In a Rails 2.3 / 3.x app this might be# in: config/initializers/twitter4r.rbTwitter Client.configure do |config|config.oauth_consumer_token = CONSUMER_KEYconfig.oauth_consumer_secret = CONSUMER_SECRET
end
Getting access tokens for a user, [1/2]
# Using OAuth Ruby gem library helper in:# app/controller/application_controller.rbdef redirect_to_twitterconsumer = OAuth Consumer.new KEY, SECRET,
:site => “https://twitter.com”token = consumer.get_request_tokenredirect_to(token.authorize_url)
end
Getting access tokens for a user, [1/2]
# Using OAuth Ruby gem library helper in:# app/controller/application_controller.rbdef redirect_to_twitterconsumer = OAuth Consumer.new KEY, SECRET,
:site => “https://twitter.com”token = consumer.get_request_tokenredirect_to(token.authorize_url)
end
Getting access tokens for a user, [1/2]
# Using OAuth Ruby gem library helper in:# app/controller/application_controller.rbdef redirect_to_twitterconsumer = OAuth Consumer.new KEY, SECRET,
:site => “https://twitter.com”token = consumer.get_request_tokenredirect_to(token.authorize_url)
end
Getting access tokens for a user, [1/2]
# Using OAuth Ruby gem library helper in:# app/controller/application_controller.rbdef redirect_to_twitterconsumer = OAuth Consumer.new KEY, SECRET,
:site => “https://twitter.com”token = consumer.get_request_tokenredirect_to(token.authorize_url)
end
Getting access tokens for a user, [2/2]
# Using OAuth Ruby gem library in:# app/controller/oauth_controller.rbdef createprovider = params[:provider]case providerwhen ’twitter’
# bla bla blaend
end# Remember to add the routes:match ’oauth/:provider/callback’ => ’oauth#create’
Getting access tokens for a user, [2/2]
# Using OAuth Ruby gem library in:# app/controller/oauth_controller.rbdef createprovider = params[:provider]case providerwhen ’twitter’
# bla bla blaend
end# Remember to add the routes:match ’oauth/:provider/callback’ => ’oauth#create’
Getting access tokens for a user, [2/2]
# Using OAuth Ruby gem library in:# app/controller/oauth_controller.rbdef createprovider = params[:provider]case providerwhen ’twitter’
# bla bla blaend
end# Remember to add the routes:match ’oauth/:provider/callback’ => ’oauth#create’
Using access tokens
# Pass in access key/secret tokens to# Twitter Client.new call for each userclient = Twitter Client.new :oauth_access => {
:key => ACCESS_KEY,:secret => ACCESS_SECRET }
client.status(:post, “Tweet from my OAuth-ed app”)
Using access tokens
# Pass in access key/secret tokens to# Twitter Client.new call for each userclient = Twitter Client.new :oauth_access => {
:key => ACCESS_KEY,:secret => ACCESS_SECRET }
client.status(:post, “Tweet from my OAuth-ed app”)
Using access tokens
# Pass in access key/secret tokens to# Twitter Client.new call for each userclient = Twitter Client.new :oauth_access => {
:key => ACCESS_KEY,:secret => ACCESS_SECRET }
client.status(:post, “Tweet from my OAuth-ed app”)
