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I have Ruby on Rails application. Curently I'm trying to implement an OAuth API. Is there some way to test this API from Ruby console? In particular I need to do some POST requests to the API.

Basically I need to pretend as a client app from Ruby console, get access token and then call for API methods. Is there some tutorial or article on how to achieve this?

Thanks!

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Tests should be run from your test suite, not the console. –  Marc Talbot Feb 1 '12 at 15:34
    
Well the API is not done yet. I'm still developing it. –  Alexander Savin Feb 1 '12 at 16:20
    
You should be writing your tests first, not the API first. –  Marc Talbot Feb 1 '12 at 19:09
    
Any hint or tutorial on how to write tests for OAuth based API? My point is I have no clue how to achive this :D –  Alexander Savin Feb 2 '12 at 9:43

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To test the complete OAuth flow and API access, you can use the OAuth2 gem.

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Thanks, that was pretty much it. I just had to read documentation on OAuth gem. Turned out they had the example that (almost) worked from the Ruby console: rubydoc.info/github/oauth/oauth-ruby/master/file/README.rdoc –  Alexander Savin Feb 3 '12 at 14:22
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You can use the rest-client gem. Besides the Ruby console, you might want to write a small ruby script using rest-client to automate your manual tests.

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Looks interesting, will try it. Thanks! –  Alexander Savin Feb 2 '12 at 11:09

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