He is a copy of my Oauth presentation [806 kB] from tonight’s WellRailed group. I discussed Oauth from both a client and a server perspective. Plenty of examples from Sharesight, where we are building an API.

Here is the example test.rb

<br /> #!/usr/bin/ruby<br /> #</p> <p>require 'rubygems'<br /> require 'oauth'<br /> require 'pp'</p> <p>###################<br /> # Authorisation<br /> ###################<br /> @consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new("FDcyJ3ZrVlJhEuI4mOtC", "ytjnPDxT8QGi2f7YHlswJLoCWsQ3SGubmwVojJlx", :site => 'http://localhost:3000')<br /> @request_token = @consumer.get_request_token</p> <p>puts "Authorise url: #{@request_token.authorize_url}"<br /> `open #{@request_token.authorize_url}`</p> <p>puts "Enter OAuth verifier:"<br /> @oauth_verifier = gets.strip</p> <p>@access_token = @request_token.get_access_token(:oauth_verifier => @oauth_verifier)</p> <p>###################<br /> # Use<br /> ###################<br /> @response = @access_token.get '/api/trades.xml'<br /> pp @response.body<br />

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