Question

I am using devise and looking to post to twitter using “twitter” gem but I am little confused, do I also need omniauth gem too ? Do I need to configure omniauth with devise (I am using it for users) first before I can use “twitter” gem so users can post tweets

EDIT – btw, it is the users which will be sending tweets to their respective tweeter accounts

Thanks

Answer 1

No you don’t need Omniauth gem, only twitter is enough

This is what I did

Gemfile

gem 'twitter'

create your app
from this url, and make sure you give your app the POST, permission

config/initializers/twitter.rb

Twitter.configure do |config|
  config.consumer_key = ""
  config.consumer_secret = ""
  config.oauth_token = ""
  config.oauth_token_secret = ""
end

then call it as

Twitter.update("I'm tweeting with @gem!")

on a side note, if you have any url to be shorten use bitly

go to bitly and grab your access token

Gem file

gem ‘bitly’

and call it as

bitly = Bitly.new("key", "key")
shorten_url = bitly.shorten("http://skylinelive.com")

HTH