Comments on: Ruby Twitter Gem

By: jesudianmoses

jesudianmoses — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:28:49 +0000

How can I retrieve the followers id

My question is how to retrieve the followers id of the given twitter user without providing the authentication. To be more clear how can i create a base object in the other ways?

By: Ben Kudria

Ben Kudria — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:57:59 +0000

How To Update Facebook, Twitter, and Kopete’s Status All At Once…

I have whipped up a short script to update Facebook’s status, Twitter, and Kopete’s status all at once. The Facebook portion of the code comes directly from Kerry Buckley’s script…

By: RMB

RMB — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:54:36 +0000

John, I don’t think the method is working as expected, you should test it. I pasted the example you posted above in my console and ran it with proper login credentials. I got back all direct messages, not just those posted after Auguest 2nd. Let me know if you experience the same and if you have any suggestions as to how to fix it. Thanks.

By: John Nunemaker

John Nunemaker — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:14:46 +0000

@RMB – @messages = Twitter::Base.new(‘XXXX’, ‘XXXX’).direct_messages(“Fri2C++2+Aug+2007+013A363A12+GMT”)

Should work like that. Just takes a string. I should make it take a date or time as well. I’ll make note of that.

By: RMB

RMB — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:17:03 +0000

John, thanks for the quick reply. Back on direct_messages, i was reading the Twitter Gem Doc, and you mention that you can specifcy an option to grab direct messages specifying for instance a previous retreival date/time value.

Can you provide an example of useage? I have an http formatted date which i’m storing in a variable called ‘last_update.’ How would I include that in the direct message call? I’m trying a structure like this:

@messages = Twitter::Base.new(‘XXXX’, ‘XXXX’).direct_messages(since=Fri2C++2+Aug+2007+013A363A12+GMT)

The date format above works when i curl the API. I think though i’m missing the syntax. Let me know please. Thanks!

By: John Nunemaker

John Nunemaker — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:20:45 +0000

@RMB – There is a method in the api. I haven’t actually implemented it in the gem. I’m behind on the methods because I’m swamped right now.

By: RMB

RMB — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:05:17 +0000

Great gem, so far so good! I can retreive direct messages which is what my app needs to do, though there doesn’t appear to be a gem method for destroying direct_messages on twitter once I’ve stored them application side.

That would be a nice enhancement. If I’m missing something, or if you have an alternate way of doing it outside the gem, please let me know. I tried doing it with Net::HTTP.get but i got a response saying that i couldn’t be authenticated. Any help here destroying private messages would be greatly appreciated.

By: kaerast

kaerast — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:30:56 +0000

It’s not doing any error handling what so ever, meaning the frequent downtimes of the Twitter servers cause horrible error messages.

Also, I needed to gem install activesupport, you should have activesupport listed as a requirement in your gem.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 19 May 2007 02:21:08 +0000

I posted this on the Google group, but might as well mention it here: You don’t have to downgrade to an earlier (non-broken) hpricot. Just change line 12 in status.rb in the twitter gem to use: get_elements_by_tag_name(‘text’) instead of at(‘text’) and it will work.

s.text =
(xml).get_elements_by_tag_name(‘text’).innerHTML

You’ll have to do a similar change in direct_message.rb on line 13 or so (except there it’s d.text = …).

Hope this helps.

By: John Nunemaker

John Nunemaker — Thu, 10 May 2007 14:11:04 +0000

@spp – The ruby twitter gem is a pure ruby interface. The command line client is just a bonus written on top of it.

By: spp

spp — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:30:57 +0000

There is also a Twitter4R which provides a Pure Ruby interface to Twitter instead of just command-line.

See http://twitter4r.rubyforge.org for details.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:57:08 +0000

Hi, thanks for a great gem. Thanks to it, it took me half an hour to create a (Windows only) Yahoo Messenger Twitter updater Hope people will find it useful as well. Feedback is welcome!

By: » TwitterYM - tiny ruby Yahoo Messenger status Twitter updater [alex brie . net]

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:54:29 +0000

[...] # to make it work: # 1. install ruby on your machine; # 2. install the gems specified here http://addictedtonew.com/archives/187/ruby-twitter-gem/ : # gem install hpricot –source http://code.whytheluckystiff.net -v 0.4.86 # gem install twitter # 3. change the line s = Twitter::Base.new(‘my_email’, ‘my_password’).timeline(:user)[0] # by entering your login credentials for the twitter account # 4. start yahoo messenger # 5. run the script [...]

By: John Nunemaker

John Nunemaker — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:46:51 +0000

I’ll fix it this weekend. I’m 99% sure it’s the relative_created_at field being removed. I just need to update the gem. I noticed it today as well.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:36:28 +0000

Same here and it was working for a day or so, then it puked. It suggested the following:

“Most likely: The twitter gem requires hpricot version >= 0.4.59. Check to make sure that you have at least that version installed.”

It posts successfully, though it claims it didn’t. Nothing else works. Its seems to have failed in stages…first went the ‘friends’ command, then the ‘post’ command. Its all going to hell in a hand-basket I say! lol

I too am willing to test things as needed…