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Authentication using Google Accounts for your Rails App

Posted on September 28, 2009, 1:02 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).

The methodology is very simple. Redirect the user to grant access to your app for a particular Google service. Once access is granted, use the authentication token to retrieve information related to the user. I demonstrate this with a very simple & idiotic Sinatra app which actually does nothing intelligent – apart from just outputting [...]

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Script free SMS via 160by2.com

Posted on July 23, 2009, 10:54 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).

Courtesy – yet again, Ruby! #!/usr/bin/env ruby   require "rubygems" require "mechanize"   module SMS     class OneSixtyByTwo     attr_accessor :agent, :uid     attr_accessor :urls       def initialize(username, password)       @urls = {         :login => "http://m.160by2.com",         :sms => "http://m.160by2.com/SaveCompose.asp?l=1"   [...]

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