This post is a follow on from my previous post about the oAuth protocol in general in Ruby. Here I detail how to let a user authenticate themselves via Twitter to your web app, request a list of people they’re following (a GET operation) and how to follow a specific user (a POST operation). As […]
oAuth with the Twitter API in Ruby on Rails without a gem
15th December, 2011 - Posted by david
oAuth 1.0 in Ruby without a gem
10th December, 2011 - Posted by david
Recently I decided to figure out what the oAuth 1.0 protocol was all about and try to implement it in Ruby, as part of a way a) to practice by Ruby on Rails, b) have a look at the Twitter API and c) use both to get an understanding of how websites let you log […]