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class Twitter::Client
  @@AUTHENTICATION_URIS = {
    :verify => '/account/verify_credentials',
  }

  # Provides access to the Twitter verify credentials API.
  # 
  # You can verify Twitter user credentials with minimal overhead using this method.
  # 
  # Example:
  #  client.authenticate?("osxisforlightweights", "l30p@rd_s^cks!")
  def authenticate?(login, password)
    verify_credentials(login, password)
  end

  private
  def verify_credentials(username, passwd)
    response = rest_oauth_connect(:get, "#{@@AUTHENTICATION_URIS[:verify]}.json")
    response.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess) ? true : false
  end
end

Version data entries

6 entries across 6 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
twitter4r-0.7.0	lib/twitter/client/auth.rb
twitter4r-0.6.0	lib/twitter/client/auth.rb
twitter4r-0.5.3	lib/twitter/client/auth.rb
twitter4r-0.5.2	lib/twitter/client/auth.rb
twitter4r-0.5.1	lib/twitter/client/auth.rb
twitter4r-0.5.0	lib/twitter/client/auth.rb