Vincent Van Gemert and the Floorplanner team ran into a few stumbling blocks while preparing their product for the Google Apps Market. "We found out that a lot of people were struggling with the existing Rails libraries and the OAuth authorization method," Van Gemert wrote. That's why Van Gemert created a guide for integrating Ruby on Rails applications with Google Apps and the Apps Marketplace, which Google has published on its Apps Developer Blog.
Van Gemert's guide covers:
- The initial setup
- Rails libraries and OpenID
- Using the Google Data APIs
Although this guide is Google specific, learning more about oAuth is a great idea if you want to start offering your projects through web-based app stores.