Comments on: tutorial, how to use twitter_auth gem in development mode

By: cbmeeks

cbmeeks — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:10:07 +0000

I finally got this to work. Hopefully, this will help at least one person that suffered the same way I did. LOL

First of all, after I registered my app with Twitter and made changes, the changes took a while to work. I KEPT getting 401 unauthorized for hours. Even though the code worked before! I simply changed the name of the app and it wasn’t ready. So keep that in mind. Don’t make changes until you have to!

Second, I had been playing with OpenID and AuthLogic. I had forgotten to take the “current_user” helper function out of the application controller so it was conflicting with the current_user used by TwitterAuth.

Now things work PERFECT!

Thanks for the tutorial.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:03:03 +0000

Damned, Wordpress didn’t send me emails about the comment guys, sorry for the late response!

So, @vijay for the logout, just create a link => link_to ‘Logout’,logout_path (checkout rake routes)

@Alex, OpenId store more information than twitter, but yes it kind does the same job. Thanks for the tip I’ll update soon.

@Hemali, you’re welcome

By: Hemali

Hemali — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:49:52 +0000

Thanks ! It worked

Really nice tutorial

By: Alex Gorbatchev

Alex Gorbatchev — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:19:28 +0000

I like your syntax highlighter Btw, a new version is out which automatically hides the toolbar, I think you might like that feature.

can twitter_auth be used ala openid?

By: vijay

vijay — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:12:44 +0000

OK, just clear these two cookies
_twitterauth_session and remember_token

Thanks for the tutorial

By: vijay

vijay — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:37:02 +0000

It worked!

I changed twitterauth.local, to http://localhost.com:3000/oauth_callback, for the callback URL, added 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.com to the /etc/hosts file and it worked.

just a suggestion.
could you explain how to log off? also, do we really need the Apache step?

sorry for so many questions. rails noob here

By: vijay

vijay — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:18:15 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial.

when I tried restarting Apache, I got this error

Syntax error on line 4 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/twitterauth:
Invalid command ‘RailsEnv’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Also, is the directory ’site-enabled’ or ’sites-enabled’?

Any suggestions?

Thank you