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OAuth with Doorkeeper

#353 OAuth with Doorkeeper pro

May 23, 2012 | 19 minutes | Plugins, APIs
Doorkeeper makes it easy to create an OAuth 2 provider. This episode also shows how to setup OmniAuth as an OAuth client and use the oauth2 gem to communicate with an API.
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