OAuth Example using the omniauth-github gem

oauth-example.md

• Code: https://github.com/applegrain/oauth-example
• OAuth Protocol: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-1.2
• Omniauth: https://github.com/intridea/omniauth

Implement OAuth in your Rails application:

1. Create an app on github (make sure the callback url is http://localhost:3000/auth/github/callback)

2. Add an initializer, config/initializers/omniauth.rb

  Rails.application.config.middleware.use OmniAuth::Builder do
    provider :github, ENV['GITHUB_KEY'], ENV['GITHUB_SECRET']
  end

3. Add key and secret. Make sure that you can access the keys in the rails console like this:

   • ENV["GITHUB_SECRET"]
   • ENV["GITHUB_KEY"]

4. Change login link in home.html.erb to “/auth/github”

5. Create callback route: routes.rb, get '/auth/:provider/callback', to: 'sessions#create'

6. Create a sessions controller

   • add a #create action in the sessions controller

   def create
     @user = User.find_or_create_from_auth(request.env['omniauth.auth'])
     if @user
       session[:user_id] = @user.id
       redirect_to dashboard_path
     else
       redirect_to root_path
     end
   end

7. Create user model: nickname, email, provider, token, uid, image_url, token

8. In the user model, build the class method #find_or_create_from_auth that we referenced in sessions#create

  def self.find_or_create_by_auth(auth)
    user = User.find_or_create_by(provider: auth['provider'], uid: auth['uid'])

    user.nickname = auth['info']['nickname']
    user.name = auth['info']['name']
    user.email = auth['info']['email']
    user.image_url = auth['info']['image']
    user.token = auth['credentials']['token']

    user.save
    user
  end

9. Create current user method in application controller

	  helper_method :current_user
	
	  def current_user
	    @current_user ||= User.find(session[:user_id]) if session[:user_id]
	  end
	
	  def authorize!
	    redirect_to root_path unless current_user
	  end

10. Add destroy action in sessions controller

11. routes.rb: “delete '/logout', to: 'sessions#destroy'”

FYI the ENV keys need to be changed to GITHUB_CLIENT_ID & GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET to work with githubs current configuration.

Does this work for you? I have done it in the exact same way as you and as the documentation says but when I go to /auth/github I get 404 page not found error message from Github. Any idea why?

Nevermind, it appears that I had to wait like half a day for GitHub to start authorizing and responding to my requests after I registered a new app