URL returned by @accounts.authorize_url was wrong, but really it was a gem issue.

[dav]

As reported in a Spotify Developer community post, the URL string being returned was incorrect.

Using the gem, I am obtaining an URL like this:

url = @accounts.authorize_url(scope: scopes)

It appeared to be a correct oauth authorization URL, but loading it in the browser always results in a Spotify "Oops! Something went wrong" error page when loaded.

This is an example of the URL:

https://accounts.spotify.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=someID&redirect_uri=someEncodedURL&response_type=code&scope=user-read-private

The problem turned out to be that the "/oauth" part of the URL was incorrect. If I removed that portion, the page loaded fine with the permission flow.

url.gsub!(/\/oauth/, '')

On further investigation, I see that this URL has long been fixed in the code here, the problem was that bundler was not finding the most recent version of the gem. It installed v 0.2.4 and it was surprisingly difficult to get it to load v 0.2.5.

I ended up needing to put this in my Gemfile:

gem 'spotify-ruby', git: 'https://github.com/bih/spotify-ruby', ref: '9cafd653e2ca7b077f8261b9c78da96ae9f1acc3'

I'm not sure what is going on here, but since I traveled a pretty normal route to get into this mess, I figure it would be good to raise an issue because others are likely to have the same problem.

[kailan]

This was fixed in 76a0fad but 0.2.5 hasn't been released and pushed to rubygems yet.

@bih are you able to tag master and publish 0.2.5? many thanks.