OAuth (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) on Rails

Question

I would like to connect to those applications which provided OAuth API (such as fb, twitter).

Is there a relatively easier way to integrate those APIs?

I have successfully used linkedin gem which can connect to LinkedIn OAuth API. But I really don't want to install a gem for dealing with a single application, where those applications provided similar OAuth APIs.

Answer 1

Well, both fb and twitter are pretty custom versions of OAuth, so I think you'll end up needing a gem per app. But!

Authlogic provides some nice plugins for open-id, twitter, and facebook.

• For Facebook, see this Question --
• Authlogic Facebook
• Twitter and other Oauth

Answer 2

AuthlogicConnect looks like it works for many sites (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Google, Yahoo). I'm currently using it with FB and Twitter on Rails 3. Be sure to follow the tutorial as there are many things to set up.