External Resources

Tutorials / Blog Posts

• Detailed Tutorial for Rails 3 + Mongoid + Omniauth by Daniel Kehoe
• Ruby on Rails CommunityGuides: Omniauth pure - Authentication with Facebook, Google, Google Apps, Twitter, Github, AOL, MyOpenID, ... [March 2011] with demo application on Github.
• Separating Authentication and Identity with OmniAuth - Tutorial about integrating OmniAuth with Rails in a robust manner.
• OmniAuth: Flexible, Unassuming Authentication - Announcement post, covers some philosophy behind OmniAuth and brief tech intro.
• Railscasts: OmniAuth Screencast Part 1 and Part 2 - A two-part video walkthrough of installing, configuring and using OmniAuth in existing Rails application.
• Railscasts: Simple OmniAuth Screencast - A follow up screencast in the Railscasts series that demonstrates a simpler approach to using OmniAuth
• An OmniAuth Provider for Everything Else - Great workup of how to write additional providers for OmniAuth.
• Writing acceptance tests for OmniAuth - A blog post with a tutorial explaining how to write an acceptance test for OmniAuth, including how to stub the Provider responses.
• Easy Rails OAuth integration testing with OmniAuth - A blog post detailing how to test authentication workflow with Capybara
• Dynamically Requesting Facebook Permissions with OmniAuth - Detailed explanation on dynamically setting Facebook permissions within the Setup Phase
• Rails, Devise, Omniauth, Heroku, Facebook, Twitter, and Google - Blog post by Andrew Davis
• Using multiple omniauth providers with omniauth-identity on the main user model - Blog post by Stefano Bernardi

Example Applications

• Completely Logout from Facebook
• Using Omniauth with 2-Deep Wildcard Routes
• Example app using Rails 3 + Mongoid + Omniauth by Daniel Kehoe
• Sinatra - A simple authentication example in Sinatra.
• Example Omniauth Provider and Client including devise
• Example Rails 3.2 + OmniAuth app, configured to work out-of-box with Facebook, GitHub, Twitter, Tumblr, Google, YouTube, Vimeo and more.

Related Projects integrating OmniAuth

• Socialite is a Rails Engine that adds support for managing authentications from multiple OmniAuth providers. It closely mirrors the recommended setup here on the OmniAuth Wiki.