From 160c3a961943aa996982a8d84403957afef0a459 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: thea Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:43:39 +0200 Subject: Added documentation to README about twitter authentification and usage of secrets-file --- README.md | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e68c117..4d9ca39 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -187,3 +187,29 @@ Known problems designed to allow query of a user database via proxy in order to provide network perspective. +Twitter Timeline on Main View +--------------------------- + +This is a feature to include a twitter feed that displays most recent tweets +of a (determined) twitter account (accessed via Twitter API). +If you chose to use it, the feature gets included in `home/index` of +LEAP web app (as part of the main view). + +* Create Twitter Application on https://apps.twitter.com/ + * Visit https://apps.twitter.com/ and log in with the twitter account you want to use + * Make sure you have a mobile phone number registered with your account to be able to proceed + * Choose the option to `Create New App` + * Fill in Application Details and Developer Agreement and `Create your Twitter application` + * Choose the section "Keys and Access Tokens" to get your consumer key and consumer secret + * Optional: Go to section "Permissions" and change the "Access" from `Read and Write` (by default) to `Read only` + * Have your consumer key and secret by hand for one of the next steps + +* Activate the feature within your local LEAP Web Application + * If not already existing create a secrets-file in /config with the name secrets.yml (`/config/secrets.yml`) + * Secrets-file should contain the following, make sure its in YAML: {"development"=> {"twitter"=>{"enabled"=>false, "twitter_handle"=>"", "bearer_token"=>"", "twitter_picture"=>nil}}, "test"=>{"twitter"=>{"enabled"=>false, "twitter_handle"=>"", "bearer_token"=>"", "twitter_picture"=>nil}}} + * To have your bearer token created, run script in terminal being in the file of leap_web: `script/generate_bearer_token` + * To have the script run properly you have to add before running: `--key your_consumerkey --secret your_consumersecret` + * Add also `--projectroot your_projectroot --twitterhandle your_twitterhandle` as well to not have manually put the data in your secrets-file + * The full command looks like this: `script/generate_bearer_token --key your_consumerkey --secret your_consumersecret --projectroot your_projectroot --twitterhandle your_twitterhandle` + * If you didn't give all your information to the script, had a typo or want to change anything else, please do so by finding the secrets-file at `/config/secrets.yml` + * Make sure that the correct twitterhandle and bearer-token is included -- cgit v1.2.3