Wow is this thing impressive... i love it! I’ve been searching for a good twitter plugin/gem. Needed a way to hook into twitter without much legwork. Excellent resource,. 100% Twitter REST API coverage. It does it all, public/private timeline, status updates, the works. This is going to frickin’ fun!
To install it: sudo gem install twitter4r
I DID have to configure it a bit more for my needs though. When pulling in user statuses’, doesn’t return the FULL list of status attributes. By default it just returns the status’ user, text, created_at and ID. The essentials but I needed the full lot. No worries
After installing the gem Open /vendor/gem/twitter4r-0.3.0/lib/twitter/model.rb
Scroll down and find the STATUS Class.
Within the class you can modify/edit/add your other attributes if necessary. Worked well for me. In my case I added :in_reply_to_user_id to the @@Attributes array and that was a wrap.
Now let’s keep building…
but i had to change that… so i opened up /vendor/gem/twitter/twitter.rb… scrolled down and found the STATUS method, and added in the other attributes. easy enough… now lets keep working.
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May 26, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Hi Nick,
You might want to try installing the latest twitter4r gem (0.3.1) which will provides you with a full(er) list of attributes.
HTH,
Susan