Like Facebook Connect, Myspace Data Availability enables your site to take advantage of Myspace accounts. For example, you can have your users login to your site using their Myspace accounts, or list their Myspace friends on your own site.

I didnt find an easy step-by-step tutorial even on a basic thing like getting the myspace user id of the logged in user in the external website; so I figure I’ll write this post to help other Rails developers out there who are new to this.