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Hinchy
Hinchy

Reputation: 93

Twitter::Error::Forbidden - Unable to verify your credentials - Twitter gem in Rails

I'm using the Twitter gem to try and post a list of tweets from an account on my webpage, however I keep getting the 'Unable to verify your credentials' error.

I've even put the |config| block in the controller to try and narrow down what's going on, but no donut!

The Twitter keys are correct. I just created an app and copy / pasted them directly into the config/application.yml file. And then when it didn't work, I created a new app and tried again.

config/application.rb

require File.expand_path('../boot', __FILE__)
require 'yaml'
require 'rails/all'

config = YAML.load(File.read(File.expand_path('../application.yml', __FILE__)))

config/application.yml

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY: '123456789'
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET: '123456789'
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN: '123456789'
TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET: '123456789'

app/controllers/pages.html.erb

class PagesController < ApplicationController

  def index

  @twitter = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
    config.consumer_key = ENV['TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY']
    config.consumer_secret = ENV['TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET']
    config.access_token = ENV['TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN']
    config.access_token_secret = ENV['TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET']
  end

    @twitter.user_timeline("gem")

  end

  def help
  end
end

Error Page:

Twitter::Error::Forbidden in PagesController#index
Unable to verify your credentials

Extracted source (around line #12):            
  end

    @twitter.user_timeline("gem")

  end

There's something simple I'm screwing up, I'm sure of it. I really have no idea what I'm doing wrong though.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1073

Answers (1)

Olalekan Sogunle
Olalekan Sogunle

Reputation: 2357

@H-Dog please clarify. In using the application.yml, are you configuring it from the application.rb with config = YAML.load(File.read(File.expand_path('../application.yml', __FILE__)))? and are you sure you don't want to do twitter-auth to get necessary credentials (access_token and access_secret) for the account you want to tweet from?

Upvotes: 0

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