Ruby OAuth GEM

What

This is a RubyGem for implementing both OAuth clients and servers in Ruby applications.

See the OAuth specs http://oauth.net/core/1.0/

Installing

  sudo gem install oauth

You can also install it from the oauth rubyforge project http://rubyforge.org/projects/oauth/.

The source code is now hosted on the OAuth GitHub Project http://github.com/pelle/oauth/tree/master

The basics

This is a ruby library which is intended to be used in creating Ruby Consumer and Service Provider applications. It is NOT a Rails plugin, but could easily be used for the foundation for such a Rails plugin.

As a matter of fact it has been pulled out from an OAuth Rails Plugin http://code.google.com/p/oauth-plugin/ which now requires this GEM.

Demonstration of usage

Create a new consumer instance by passing it a configuration hash:

  @consumer=OAuth::Consumer.new( "key","secret", {
    :site=>"https://agree2"
    })

Start the process by requesting a token

  @request_token=@consumer.get_request_token
  session[:request_token]=@request_token
  redirect_to @request_token.authorize_url

When user returns create an access_token

  @access_token=@request_token.get_access_token
  @photos=@access_token.get('/photos.xml')

For more detailed instructions I have written this OAuth Client Tutorial http://stakeventures.com/articles/2008/02/23/developing-oauth-clients-in-ruby and "How to turn your rails site into an OAuth Provider ":http://stakeventures.com/articles/2007/11/26/how-to-turn-your-rails-site-into-an-oauth-provider .

Finally be sure to check out the OAuth RDoc Manual http://oauth.rubyforge.org/rdoc/ .

Documentation Wiki

There is some documentation on the Google Code project for the "OAuth Rails Plugin":http://code.google.com/p/oauth-plugin/ :

• RequestToken http://code.google.com/p/oauth-plugin/wiki/RequestToken
• AccessToken http://code.google.com/p/oauth-plugin/wiki/AccessToken

Forum

http://groups.google.com/group/oauth-ruby

How to submit patches

Read the "8 steps for fixing other people’s code" http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/01/8-steps-for-fixing-other-peoples-code/.

The source code is now hosted on the OAuth GitHub Project http://github.com/pelle/oauth/tree/master

To submit a patch, please fork the oauth project and create a patch with tests. Once you’re happy with it send a pull request and post a message to the google group.

License

This code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license.

Contact

Comments are welcome. Send an email to "Pelle Braendgaard" pelleb@gmail.com email via the OAuth Ruby mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/oauth-ruby