= Ruby OAuth

== What

This is a RubyGem for implementing both OAuth clients and servers in Ruby applications.

See the OAuth specs http://oauth.net/core/1.0/

== Installing

  sudo gem install oauth

The source code is now hosted on the OAuth GitHub Project http://github.com/oauth/oauth-ruby

== The basics

This is a ruby library which is intended to be used in creating Ruby Consumer and Service Provider applications. It is NOT a Rails plugin, but could easily be used for the foundation for such a Rails plugin.

As a matter of fact it has been pulled out from an OAuth Rails Plugin http://code.google.com/p/oauth-plugin/ which now requires this GEM.

== Demonstration of usage

Create a new consumer instance by passing it a configuration hash:

  @consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new("key","secret", :site => "https://agree2")

Start the process by requesting a token

  @request_token = @consumer.get_request_token
  session[:request_token] = @request_token
  redirect_to @request_token.authorize_url

When user returns create an access_token

  @access_token = @request_token.get_access_token
  @photos = @access_token.get('/photos.xml')

Now that you have an access token, you can use Typhoeus to interact with the OAuth provider if you choose.

  oauth_params = {:consumer => oauth_consumer, :token => access_token}
  hydra = Typhoeus::Hydra.new
  req = Typhoeus::Request.new(uri, options) 
  oauth_helper = OAuth::Client::Helper.new(req, oauth_params.merge(:request_uri => uri))
  req.headers.merge!({"Authorization" => oauth_helper.header}) # Signs the request
  hydra.queue(req)
  hydra.run
  @response = req.response


== More Information

* RDoc: http://rdoc.info/projects/oauth/oauth-ruby/
* Mailing List/Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/oauth-ruby

== How to submit patches

The source code is now hosted on the OAuth GitHub Project http://github.com/oauth/oauth-ruby

To submit a patch, please fork the oauth project and create a patch with tests. Once you're happy with it send a pull request and post a message to the google group.

== License

This code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license. 

== Contact

OAuth Ruby has been created and maintained by a large number of talented individuals. 
The current maintainer is Aaron Quint (quirkey).

Comments are welcome. Send an email to via the OAuth Ruby mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/oauth-ruby