Oauth Example App

This basic rails application is a step-by-step implementation of the process described in the OAuth tutorial here.

Using the App

Basic Setup

Clone, bundle, and set up the DB:

git clone https://github.com/turingschool-examples/oauth-workshop.git
cd oauth-workshop
bundle
bundle exec rake db:create db:migrate

Twitter Credentials Setup

Additionally, you'll need to register an API application with Twitter in order to acquire the API credentials needed for the OAuth portion of the app.

You can register an application here. Once you've done this, find the "Consumer Key (API Key)" and "Consumer Secret (API Secret)" that Twitter provides.

Add these to a configuration file at config/application.yml. The file should look like this:

# config/application.yml
defaults: &defaults
  TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY: YOUR-KEY-HERE
  TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET: YOUR-SECRET-HERE

development:
  <<: *defaults

test:
  <<: *defaults

production:
  <<: *defaults

This file is listed in the project's .gitignore so that we don't accidentally commit it. The credentials listed in this file will be loaded into the application's Environment, and used to configre OmniAuth for our application.