要在Twitter上发帖，我是否也需要omniauth gem（以及twitter gem）？

Question

I am using devise and looking to post to twitter using "twitter" gem but I am little confused, do I also need omniauth gem too ? Do I need to configure omniauth with devise (I am using it for users) first before I can use "twitter" gem so users can post tweets

EDIT - btw, it is the users which will be sending tweets to their respective tweeter accounts

Thanks

Answer 1

No you don't need Omniauth gem, only twitter is enough

This is what I did

Gemfile

gem 'twitter'

create your app from this url , and make sure you give your app the POST , permission

config/initializers/twitter.rb

Twitter.configure do |config|
  config.consumer_key = ""
  config.consumer_secret = ""
  config.oauth_token = ""
  config.oauth_token_secret = ""
end

then call it as

Twitter.update("I'm tweeting with @gem!")

on a side note, if you have any url to be shorten use bitly

go to bitly and grab your access token

Gem file

gem 'bitly'

and call it as

bitly = Bitly.new("key", "key")
shorten_url = bitly.shorten("http://skylinelive.com")

HTH

Answer 2

No, you don't need Omniauth to allow your users to post tweets. Omniauth is for authentication only -- that means logging into your website and creating user accounts.

I could direct you better to what you need if you included info as to how the posting should work on your website. If all you want is to let them tweet a link to the current page, you need to include the code for the Tweet Button into the desired page.