I am new Rails developer. Right now, I can let user register in my Rails App. I have database running also.
Todo:
After user register. I will ask permission to access his twitter. And I can access his tweets(including location information in tweets).
About this part, I have no idea how to do now? Can anyone give some links where I should start? I guess first step is I need authentication from twitter right?
Thanks
You are right, first of all you need authentication user from twitter: railscasts. Then you will find all methods there twitter api
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I am trying to implement a facebook user authentication in my iOS6 App through my Rails Backend running with Devise using omniauth. I am looking for a step by step guide how to setup my API and Devise + Authentication.
I only have a only have a rough knowledge about how to do that.
(on App) check if the user signs in on his facebook on iPhone
iPhone is authenticated client sided on Facebook. FB passes me his mobile auth token
I send my auth token or auth hash to my rails backend via API RESTful SSL.
Rails receives the Token and checks if it is valid. ( What command uses the least traffic against FB Graph API? with Koala Gem)
If valid. Check if the user already exists. If not, create a new user.
Create a new session.
Is this correct?
Are there any good examples?
Thank you very much.
I'm not familiar with the iPhone piece, but your approach after that is generally accurate. The only exception is that you would typically use provider + uid to find or create a user, rather than a token. That might be what you meant by your #5, but it wasn't clear to me.
Beyond that, there is a good (paid) Railscast on the subject of Omniauth + Devise, which would probably be worth the price for you:
http://railscasts.com/episodes/235-devise-and-omniauth-revised
It covers how you can receive and handle the auth hash, and it gives you a nice starting point for what your methods will look like.
if you don't access to pro episodes i have some links to help.
http://jessewolgamott.com/blog/2012/01/19/the-one-with-a-json-api-login-using-devise/
you can also look into it
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby/how-to-use-omniauth-to-authenticate-your-users/
Nice and easy to code
http://blog.joshsoftware.com/2010/12/16/multiple-applications-with-devise-omniauth-and-single-sign-on/
I hope these will work for you :)
http://www.orhancanceylan.com/rails-twitter-and-facebook-authentications-with-omniauth-and-devise/
I wonder if someone may be able to help me please? I've been trying to find an article which can run me through username / password authentication within iOS with limited success. I found a good article from http://www.raywenderlich.com/6475/basic-security-in-ios-5-tutorial-part-1 and I thought this would answer my questions. Unfortunately, I hit a snag after following the tutorial to the letter whereby I was just presented with a blank screen. Whilst I've contacted Chris Lowe (the chap who done the tutorial) I haven't had a response back and I've hit a bit of a brick wall.
I wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction where I could learn how to do this and whether there were any code snippets which could be used etc etc?
Ideally I'm trying to get my application to prompt users for a username / email and password so that I can authenticate them using a web service connection from a company called parse.com. Its all very very new to me and I'm struggling but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Sean
I realize this is an older post but what type of authentication were you trying to implement? A custom system where users enter a service specific email/password? Facebook auth? Twitter Auth? Google account auth? MSFT account auth?
If you're looking for any of the latter four, you may want to check out WA Mobile Services and these two tutorials:
-Getting started with authentication: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/tutorials/get-started-with-users-ios/
-Authorizing users with server-side scripts: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/tutorials/authorize-users-in-scripts-ios/
Essentially, once you obtain the Client ID and Client Secret from the relevant service, you're then your to write a method that checks to see if a user is already logged in. If not, you'll then display the relevant login option (the first tutorial shows a Facebook auth walk through).
If you were looking for a custom authentication system that allows users to create a service/app specific account, then you might find this post helpful: http://thejoyofcode.com/Exploring_custom_identity_in_Mobile_Services_Day_12_.aspx
Hope this helps,
Miranda
I am making an instagram application using rails. Is it possible
to save some kind of 'token' or 'id' in my database that can be used
to automatically authenticate the user and allow the application to
access the user's profile data, images,etc,etc without asking the user
to enter the login details/authentication again and again. If it is possible please
tell me how it can be done.
Thanks in advance! :)
Yes, it is possible to get a token. Take a look at the documentation concerning authentication, it's pretty comprehensive.
http://instagram.com/developer/authentication/
in my rails web application I am implementing Facebook connectivity. I want that whenever user updates his/her status on my site his/her facebook status should also be updated. Is there any working rails application for this?
Please help.Thank you.
Have a look at the Koala gem which acts as a client to the Facebook graph API and does exactly what you need.
fb_graph as well also accomplishes what the koala gem does .
Though to update on a user to user basis you'll need to have some sort of login system in place. In that case I'd look at Devise using omniauth to accomplish this.
I use devise + omniauth for authentication and getting the right access token.
I use Koala for updating + reading information.
I have a signup form, and I wanted to make it so that they have the option of recommending this signup to all their friends in facebook.
Is there a rails API/gem for doing this?
Is there an appropriate name for this?
Thanks!
Looking at the Extended permissions documentation, you don't get access to the email addresses of a Facebook user's friends (search for email and note the second column reads not available). If that's what you're trying to achieve, it's almost certainly not possible, without the user contacting each friend and asking them to visit your app (which I would imagine would have quite a low take-up, if only through inertia).
I guess you have two options:
popup a javascript before submitting the form to prompt the user wether he wants to share it with friends. You will use the js api http://github.com/facebook/connect-js (see the dialog section). This solution would avoid doing server side connection to the facebook api
Have a look a the Facebooker gem to do a stream_publish