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    <p>I'm working on a personal project just to get my hands dirty with RoR. What I'm trying to do is a very simple twitter search engine using the Twitter gem. Calling the <strong>Twitter.search</strong> method with various options I can accomplish this goal easily. My problem is:</p> <p>How do I show the user avatar of each tweet I retrieved from the search ?</p> <p>I managed to get the json url and parse it, but I'm getting the Bad Authentication Data message:</p> <pre><code>{"errors"=&gt;[{"message"=&gt;"Bad Authentication data", "code"=&gt;215}]} </code></pre> <p>I know that this might be an OAuth problem but even though I've been reading about it, I kinda get confused on how to properly use it. Is it needed to do the OAuth approval dance on a per-user basis (and eventually how) or am I able to hard-code the values from the Twitter dashboard as I did to get the results from the search (which apparently doesn't work for the avatar)?</p> <p>I have my twitter.rb file like this:</p> <pre><code>Twitter.configure do |config| config.consumer_key = 'key' config.consumer_secret = 'secret' config.oauth_token = 'token' config.oauth_token_secret = 'token-secret' end </code></pre> <p>I thought that retrieveing the user json from *<a href="https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json?user_id=" rel="nofollow">https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json?user_id=</a>...* would work but I don't know how to get the authorization for that. There are many similar questions but I still couldn't understand how to solve this problem. Any help would be much appreciated.</p> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> In the twitter API doc related to this it says "<em>Use the OAuth tool in this page sidebar to generate the OAuth signature for this request.</em>" but I don't understand how to use the signature to authorize the request (if that is the actual problem)</p>
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    1. COLooks like you're blending direct API calls and the twitter gem. I'm a little confused by the steps you've taken so far, did you set up an application on developer.twitter.com?
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    2. COyeah..that's where I took the key, secret, ...oh wait..I might know what you mean...and yes you're right..so I should find a way to get those info through the twitter gem I guess..
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