A Ruby wrapper for the Twitter API.
Provides a wrapper to the Twitter API. To install, grab the gem:
gem install twitter
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Twitter api says rate limit is 180 (by user-auth), but using twitter gem restrict to 15 calls only
I am using twitter gem to interact with twitter APIs. I am using single user authentication (not application only authentication) as shown here https://github.com/sferik/twitter/blob/master/examples/Configuration.md#single-user-authentication
I have…
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How can I mock twitter streaming client calls within rspec?
Using rspec and the twitter gem https://github.com/sferik/twitter
I am trying to find a solution to mock a twitter stream ideally with a mechanism like VCR. Obviously VCR does not work on tcp socket connections only http requests.
If this is too…
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Understanding Rails/Twitter On-click tweet on behalf of user
As preface, I've followed through some tutorials (i.e. Michael Hartl's) though I'm still fairly novice. Forgive any cloudy terminology.
I am trying to build a simple application in Rails 4 that does the following:
User logs into application…
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TooManyRequests Twitter Gem
I am facing a strange TooManyRequests error. it is strange because when I use rails console and request for example [list_timeline(40906334)] more than 15 times < 180 times it works without the error.
however, when I do the same thing from the…
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Rails twitter gem causing error Missing required parameter: status
I am using twitter gem with rails in order to retrive the user timeline and post an update:
def index
@tweets = Twitter.home_timeline
end
def tweet
text = params[:text]
Twitter.update(text) unless text = nil
end
The view which…
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Return authenticated users favorites list with twitter gem
I'm looking at creating a project where I would like a user to login and then it will return all their tweets from a specific time duration.
I have seen that it is possible using the twitter Api, but as I'm planning to use the twitter gem I would…
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rails twitter gem for multiple users
using the twitter gem I want to get all the followers of the authenticated user. I only get the followers of the registered twitter id for the application though.
I have a twitter.rb in the initializers which uses the consumer key/secret of the…
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Twitter gem - how to get the latitude and longitude of a tweet?
How to get the latitude and longitude of a tweet using the Twitter gem?
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Having difficulty with a search and follow, using twitter gem and ruby
So in PHP, this code works live, done months ago.
$tweetsToSlippy = $connection->get('http://search.twitter.com/search.json', array('q' => $query, 'since_id' => $since_id))->results;
foreach ($tweetsToSlippy as $tweet)
{
$user_id =…
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twitter gem 2.0.2 ArgumentError
I just updated to rails 3.2 and twitter gem 2.0.2
Now when I start web server I get this message
ArgumentError (wrong number of arguments (3 for 1)):
twitter (2.0.2) lib/twitter.rb:10:in `new'
lib/twitter.rb:10 content
def new(options={})
…
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Troubleshooting searching with the Twitter ruby gem
I'm trying to do a search for a user's tweets with a specific hashtag, where the user's twitter handle is defined by the twitter attribute on the Profile model (@profile.twitter).
Here is the action in my controller:
def profile_twitter
@profile =…
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Twitter gem, Heroku, Internal server error
I haven't worked with the Twitter API before.
I have a Sinatra application pushed to Heroku, which makes use of the Twitter gem. The only thing I do in the application (as far as Twitter is concerned) is to pull my 5 latest tweets.
@tweets =…
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Twitter Ruby Gem - get friends names and ids, nothing more
Is it possible to simply get the people you are following with just an id and full name? I do not need any of the additional data, it's a waste of bandwidth.
Currently the only solution I have is:
twitter_client = Twitter::Client.new
friend_ids =…
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Rescuing from Twitter Gem
I have a tweets_controller
#called when user submits twitter form
def message
unless current_user
session[:twitter_message] = params[:twitter_message] #sets the message from the form so it's available for send_tweet in…
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How to disconnect twitter gem from streaming inside Thread
I'm running a streaming connection with twitter gem inside a thread. I have been disconnecting by simply killing the thread and opening a new one. I have an overlap between the old and new threads so I don't miss anything (hopefully).
But if I kill…
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