Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend

I wanted to play with accessing Twitter via their REST API and there are several Ruby libraries to do that. I picked one that said it had full support (Twitter4r) and tried it out.

First install the Ruby gem for Twitter4r:

sudo gem install twitter4r

or on Windows:

gem install -–version 1.1.1 json

gem install twitter4r

Then you can access it with a little chunk of code as simple as this:

require('rubygems')
gem('twitter4r', '0.3.0')
require('time')
require('twitter')

client = Twitter::Client.new(:login => 'your Twitter username', :password => 'your Twitter password')
timeline = client.timeline_for(:me) 

timeline.each do |status|
  puts status.user.screen_name, status.text
end

When I ran that, out popped the last 20 tweets I had done.