OAuth DevTools

This app provides a set of OAuth development tools.

It includes a web server app that performs OAuth 2.0 with services and then writes the retrieved access token to the file system in a dotenv .env file so that it can be easily used by applications during development. Code in the scripts directory use the .env file to perform example tasks.

Benefits

This is beneficial because some services only support 3-legged OAuth which requires a webserver and redirection. In development mode, some of these services recommend generating an access token via a webpage and copy / pasting that into an app which can be cumbersome so this app streamlines this process.

1. Eliminates need to copy and paste access token in development by storing the access token in a program accessible file system location
2. Provides example code for production OAuth with redirection when some SDK tutorials do not

Integrations

Currently, only Dropbox is supported, but as services are added, each will have information prefixed by the service name.

Supported services include:

Service	Input Variables	Output Variables
Dropbox	DROPBOX_APP_KEY, DROPBOX_APP_SECRET, DROPBOX_OAUTH2_REDIRECT_URI	DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN

Prerequisites ⚠️

• Ruby / RubyGems

Installation

Install Bundler if necessary:

$ gem install bundler

Install app and required gems:

$ git clone https://github.com/grokify/oauth-devtools
$ cd oauth-devtools
$ bundle install

Configuration

Ensure you are in the oauth-devtools/app directory and then create / edit the .env file. Ensure that your OAuth redirect URI matches the one specified in your app configuration page.

$ cd app
$ cp sample.env.txt .env
$ vim .env

Usage

Ensure you are in the oauth-devtools/app directory and then run app.rb.

$ cd oauth-devtools/app
$ ruby app.rb

Then navigate your browser to the URL presented, e.g. http://localhost:4567.

Notes

This project is adapted from the example code for OAuth 2.0 authorization code grant in the RingCentral Ruby SDK.

Links

Dropbox Ruby tutorial

• https://www.dropbox.com/developers-v1/core/start/ruby

Contributing

1. Fork it ( http://github.com/grokify/oauth-devtools/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

License

OAuth DevTools is available under an MIT-style license. See LICENSE.txt for details.

OAuth DevTools © 2015-2016 by John Wang