I have some code that looks like this: user.google.portable_contacts.all </pre> As long as user.google is a valid token provided by oauth you will get back a list of the user’s contacts from gmail. That is unless you have the Fireeagle gem included in your application. In that case you will spend the night swearing like…
Category: Oauth
Using the OAuth and OAuth-Plugin gems
For quite a while I’ve been wanting to play with OAuth and now that I’ve been able to spend some time playing with it I have to say it is awesome. Instead of asking for a user’s username and password for a given service (like their GMail or LinkedIn account) you instead have the user…
Turn WordPress Into Social Butterfly
I have been pitching this idea of a distributed social network to everyone that can stand to listen to me. I realize that the conversation around WordPress and the future of social networking is heating up, but as it does I think it is important to begin thinking about implementation. It is fun to philosophize,…