Where to put auth information - ruby

Question

So I'm making a small program in VisualRuby that can tweet. So here's what my main.rb looks like:
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'vrlib'
require 'twitter_oauth'
#make program output in real time so errors visible in VR.
STDOUT.sync = true
STDERR.sync = true
#everything in these directories will be included
my_path = File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__))
require_all Dir.glob(my_path + "/bin/**/*.rb")
LoginWindow.new.show
and my LoginWindow.rb looks like this
require 'twitter_oauth'
class LoginWindow #(change name)
include GladeGUI
client = TwitterOAuth::Client.new(
:consumer_key => '****',
:consumer_secret => '****',
:token => '****-****',
:secret => '****'
)
def show()
load_glade(__FILE__) #loads file, glade/MyClass.glade into #builder
set_glade_all() #populates glade controls with insance variables (i.e. Myclass.label1)
show_window()
end
def button1__clicked(*argv)
if client.authorized?
puts "true"
end
end
end
And finally my window looks like this:
Now when I run this and click the login button, VR spits this out
C:/Users/*/visualruby/Test/bin/LoginWindow.rb:22:in `button1__clicked': undefined local variable or method `client' for #<LoginWindow:0x3f56aa8>
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/vrlib-0.0.33/lib/GladeGUI.rb:146:in `call'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/vrlib-0.0.33/lib/GladeGUI.rb:146:in `block (3 levels) in parse_signals'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/vrlib-0.0.33/lib/GladeGUI.rb:331:in `call'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/vrlib-0.0.33/lib/GladeGUI.rb:331:in `main'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/vrlib-0.0.33/lib/GladeGUI.rb:331:in `show_window'
from C:/Users/*/visualruby/Test/bin/LoginWindow.rb:17:in `show'
from main.rb:14:in `<main>'
I don't think I'm supposed to put the client = Twitter.... stuff inside the LoginWindow class but I can't think of anywhere else to put it. Any ideas on how to fix this issue?

Answer 1

This is a quick solution for what you need.
in your LoginWindow.rb
def initialize
#client = TwitterOAuth::Client.new(
:consumer_key => '****',
:consumer_secret => '****',
:token => '****-****',
:secret => '****'
)
end
def button1__clicked(*argv)
if #client.authorized?
puts "true"
end
end
The problem with this solution is now you can't call button1_clicked without initializing LogginWindow before, so be careful.