mattb / identity-matcher

IdentityMatcher
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This is a Rails plugin that adds the ability to import social networks from sites such as Twitter and Gmail. Put it in 
your vendor/plugins directory. 


Example
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Add this line to your app's User model:

matches_identities

and your user model will gain the following methods:

User.match_gmail(username, password)
User.match_gmail_api(authsub_token)
User.match_twitter(nick)
User.match_hcard(url)
etc...

The return value is a two-element list. The first element is a list of User objects that match the identities found in 
the external source. The second element, if available for that mode of matching, is a list of found external identities 
that weren't matched, giving their name and email address in a hash.

Restrictions
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The code assumes that your user model uses the field 'email' for email address and 'nick' for screen name. A future 
version will parameterise this.

Contributing
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Git source repository: http://github.com/mattb/identity-matcher/tree/master
Please feel free to fork the project at GitHub and submit pull requests or patches.

Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Matt Biddulph, released under the MIT license