Question

I’m trying to implement Omniauth with my Rails 3 app. I followed the tutorial from the Railscast episod 205, but can’t get it to work. When I call the ‘/auth/twitter’ (it doesn’t work with any provider) Rails complains it can’t find the appropriate route (it tries to load my default route).

I added omniauth.rb under config/initializers/, put gem 'omniauth' in my Gemfile, and ran bundle install.

I’m not sure how to debug this problem nor what information to provide to help understand the problem.

Answer 1

After some research I found a solution. I added the following to my routes.rb file:

get ‘auth/:provider’ => ‘authentications#passthru’

and to my authentications controller:

  def passthru
    render :file => "#{Rails.root}/public/404.html", :status => 404, :layout => false
  end

Not sure why I had to do that, but it’s working…