CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby-on-railsrubygithub-api
santosh
santosh

Reputation: 81

How do I use GET and POST on Github using access tokens?

I am using OmniAuth to authenticate a user via Github. OmniAuth provides access tokens. Now I want to send the GET or POST request to Github. I don't want to use any gems, I want to do with Net::HTTP. I did it like this:

<%consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new("mshsD0jpgcYwwOEcTW5ZTA",  "V6KTqllY5jS392pj4FNFCb5EiOM8DaFzVwr9cS54XQ", { :site => "https://api.github.com", :request_token_path => '/oauth/request_token', :access_token_path => '/oauth/access_token', :authorize_path => '/oauth/authorize', :scheme => :header })%>

<%access_token = OAuth::AccessToken.new(consumer,auth.token,auth.secret)%>

The same I previously did for Twitter worked fine but now I am getting the following error:

uninitialized constant ActionView::CompiledTemplates::OAuth

Even in the same application the same thing is working for Twitter but not for Github.

I searched through Google but found nothing that helped.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2004

Answers (2)

David Underwood
David Underwood

Reputation: 4976

Seeing as you're already using Omniauth and are familiar with it, I'd recommend using the omniauth-github strategy: https://github.com/intridea/omniauth-github

Upvotes: 0

stevenh512
stevenh512

Reputation: 545

You should be using OAuth2 instead of OAuth. I'd actually recommend using Octokit, it's easy to use and Wynn works for GitHub now so part of his job is keeping it up to date. :)

If you want to use Net::HTTP (although I can't imagine why), you can actually do that without any gems. Just put the token you got from OmniAuth in the request's "Authentication" header.

require 'net/https'
require 'uri'

uri = uri = URI.parse("https://api.github.com/users/username")
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true

headers = { "Authentication" => "token" }
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri, headers)
response = http.request(request)
response.body # => A string containing the JSON response

Upvotes: 2

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