Ruby OpenID Library Installation

Dependencies

This library depends on the Ruby Yadis library available at:

www.openidenabled.com/yadis/libraries/ruby/about/

Please make sure you have the Yadis library installed, or use rubygems for installation.

Installation

Unpack the archive and run setup.rb (you may need to be root)

 ruby setup.rb

setup.rb installs the library into your system ruby. If don‘t want to add openid to you system ruby, make sure to add the lib directory of the extracted tarball to your RUBYLIB environment variable.

Make sure everything installed ok:

 $> irb
 irb(main):001:0> require "openid/consumer"
 => true

Run the test suite

Go into the test directory and execute the *runtests.rb* script.

Next steps

• Run consumer.rb in the examples directory.
• Get started writing your own consumer using OpenID::Consumer
• Write your own server with OpenID::Server