Getting Connected to Twitter with OAuth

by Charles Max Wood on September 18, 2009


In this screencast, I show you how to use the Twitter gem to connect to Twitter, and we clarify some of the difficulties that comes with learning OAuth.
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Tagged as: authentication, gems, ruby, twitter

  • how to use it???
  • How Nice work man! Liked it!
  • Nice video. I would love to see a video on parsing out the data that comes through on a timeline or mention request. Keep up the great work guys.
  • leyout
  • Aaron Patula
    When you get to the open command in Mint (and I presume also Ubuntu), you get this error message:
    "Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console"
    The fix is to run this command:
    "sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/open"

    I found the fix at this web page-
    http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2008/08/29/ra...
  • The reason I am using the PIN method here is b/c this is in preparation to create a web application where you manage your own Twitter feeds. If we had users log in and want to manage their tweets, I would definitely NOT use the PIN method.

    Thanks for bringing that point up though. It's good to clarify this.
  • bbnnt
    I wonder why the pin is aked… at the beginning using the twitter oauth, i was just asked the "deny / allow" screen, wich is obviously the most common… Maybe I'm wrong, but a small amount of twitter users might be aware of it…

    I might just not know the difference or aware of the acess provided by the pin insertion; againt the "deny/allow"… thx if any info about it.

    And I just don't get why at some point i was just asked the "deny/allow", wich changed somehow to this right here pin asking !
  • Sounds good.. Just add it into the requests and if it gets enough votes, we'll do it :D
  • 0elit3
    greate work! Please more =)
    maybe you can show rails internal?
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