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Status.gitorious.org

This is the Rails app running status.gitorious.org. It’s a fairly basic Rails app:

  • Create user accounts using the console
  • The last created status will be displayed on the home page
  • Status updates have one of three possible states

Twitter integration

The status update form contains a checkbox which toggles whether the update will be sent to Twitter after creation. We use the Twitter rubygem to do this, and it will require you to set up:

  • An application on Twitter (https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new). After creating this, you will have a consumer secret and consumer key
  • To authorize this application for your Twitter account. To do this you need to do some work in the shell
rails console

and enter into the console:

consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new(KEY,SECRET, :site => "https://twitter.com")
token = consumer.get_request_token
url = token.authorize_url

Paste the URL above into your browser and accept the message. Then go back to the shell:

access_token = token.get_access_token

Take note of the @token and @secret variables from above. You should now have four configuration variables:

  • a consumer token
  • a consumer secret
  • an access token
  • an access token secret

All these need to be exported as environment variables with the following names:

  • TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY
  • TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET
  • TWITTER_OAUTH_KEY
  • TWITTER_OAUTH_SECRET