muck-oauth

This gem wraps oauth and oauth-plugin to make it simple to get tokens for services that muck can interact with various services.

For more documentation see: github.com/pelle/oauth-plugin stakeventures.com/articles/2009/07/21/consuming-oauth-intelligently-in-rails stakeventures.com/articles/2008/02/23/developing-oauth-clients-in-ruby

Installation

Add the following to environment.rb

config.gem "oauth"
config.gem "oauth-plugin"
config.gem "muck-oauth"

Add the following to your user model:

acts_as_muck_oauth_user

Configuration

Add the following to global_config.yml. Be sure to get keys from each service that you want to interact with.

# Oauth
# Twitter api access: http://www.twitter.com/apps 
twitter_oauth_key: ''
twitter_oauth_secret: ''

# Google api access: http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/RegistrationForWebAppsAuto.html#register
google_oauth_key: ""
google_oauth_secret: ""

# Yahoo api access: http://developer.yahoo.com/flickr/
yahoo_oauth_key: ""
yahoo_oauth_secret: ""

# Flick api access: http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/apply
# flickr_oauth_key: 
# flickr_oauth_secret: 

# Linked In api access: https://www.linkedin.com/secure/developer
# linkedin_oauth_key: ""
# linkedin_oauth_secret: ""
linkedin_oauth_key: ""
linkedin_oauth_secret: ""

# Friendfeed api access: https://friendfeed.com/account/login?next=%2Fapi%2Fregister
# Production
friendfeed_oauth_key: ''
friendfeed_oauth_secret: ''  
# Test
friendfeed_oauth_key: ''
friendfeed_oauth_secret: ''

Usage

Add configuration for services to:

intializers/oauth_consumers.rb

Link to each service like this:

<a href="/oauth_consumers/twitter">Twitter</a>
<a href="/oauth_consumers/google">Google</a>

Each service provides methods that enable communication with the service’s api via popular gems. For example, the twitter service uses the twitter gem and so you can call methods against a user’s twitter account like this:

user.twitter.client.verify_credentials[:screen_name]

Please see each gem’s documentation for more information: Twitter Docs: rdoc.info/projects/jnunemaker/twitter Twitter Examples: github.com/jnunemaker/twitter-app/ i.e.

user.twitter.client

Linked In Docs: github.com/pengwynn/linkedin i.e.

user.linked_in.client

Google Docs: github.com/pelle/portablecontacts i.e.

user.google.portable_contacts

Fire Eagle Docs: fireeagle.rubyforge.org/ i.e.

user.fire_eagle.client

Friend Feed Docs: None yet

Yahoo Docs: None yet

Flickr None yet

Tips and Help

If you get an error like this:

uninitialized constant User::TwitterToken

it means you need to setup your global_config.yml with the values specified above.