railway-twitter

0.0.2 • Public • Published

Installation

mkdir node_modules
git clone https://github.com/1602/railway-twitter.git node_modules/twitter
echo "require('twitter');" >> npmfile.js
touch config/twitter.yml

Configure config/twitter.yml with your twitter app credentials:

development:
  url: "http://1.lvh.me"
  key: key
  secret: secret
production:
  url: "http://example.com"
  key: key
  secret: secret
  connectPath: /twitter_connect
  callbackPath: /twitter_callback

Callback path: /twitter_callback

Usage

In application add link to twitter connect /twitter_connect:

<%- link_to("Connect to twitter", '/twitter_connect') %>

By default twitter connect path is /twitter_connect, but it can be configured in config/twitter.yml Callback path can be configured too, see example below.

When app will connected with twitter, global app object will receive message twitterConnect as event emitter, so you can:

app.on('twitterConnect', function (user, req) {
   // find or create account for user
   // save user id in req.session
});

It is fine put code like this into user model (app/models/user.js):

app.on('twitterConnect', function (twitter, req) {
    User.findOne({twitterId: twitter.id}, function (err, user) {
        if (user) {
            req.session.user_id = user.id;
        } else {
            User.register({twitter: twitter});
        }
    });
});

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