My explaination is more language agnostic, and works for an oauth web flow. But I like your RoR idea, and it sounds like there is support for "localhost" development to some extent. I suppose /authenticated is the controller. How the terms dev, stage, prod fit into the rails design paradigm is less clear. Can you clarify that or provide a simple example?
Thanks for any insights. Patrick On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:25 AM, philip crawford <philipha...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can use a callback URL like the following to develop locally. > > http://dev.local:3000/authenticated > > Then put your dev, stage, prod callback URLs in a config. Your app > should work the same regardless of the server/environment it is > running on. > > I also have different twitter accounts for dev/stage and prod. My > prod twitter account is http://twitter.com/imby while dev & stage are > http://twitter.com/imbyTest That way the @imby lists and feed does > not contain test tweets and whatnot. Again, this is contained in a > config file so that prod => @imby and everything else => @imbyTest > > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Patrick Kennedy <kenned...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yes, Twitter requires a callback URL. Make a test page to display (or >> save to file) your oAuth tokens. Embed those tokens into your local >> test page (and remove that helpful test page on hosted server). >> Develop locally, and add if-then blocks, depending if you are local or >> remote. That way, you can develop locally, and upload same file, as >> it will work for the remote as well. When remote, instead of "saved" >> tokens, use the "live" tokens from the handshake process. >> >> ~PK >> >> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:13 AM, kaps <kap...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> How do you folks test your Twitter apps before uploading them to your >>> hosting servers? >>> Doesn't the Twitter callback URL have to be a valid website? How can >>> we test locally? >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> kaps >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Subscription settings: >>> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en >>> >> > > > > -- > imby - in my back yard > An Experiment in Local Professional Networking > http://madison.imby.info/p/Philip.Crawford >
