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Ruby Twitter

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Simple wrapper for Twitter API.

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require 'rest'
 
module Twitter
	URL = "http://twitter.com/"
 
	class Connection
		def initialize(username, password)
			@conn = REST::Connection.new(URL, :username => username, :password => password)
			@status = Status.new(@conn)
		end
 
		attr_reader :status
	end
 
	class Status
		def initialize(conn)
			@conn = conn
		end
 
		def update(message)
			res = @conn.request_post("statuses/update.xml", :status => message)
		end
	end
end

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Posted By: mbbx6spp on July 10, 2007

Twitter4R (an open source Ruby library that contains bindings for the Twitter REST API) v0.2.0 has 100% Twitter REST API coverage already. Check out the following links for more information: * Project Website * Twitter4R v0.2.0 Release * Twitter4R v0.2.0 RDoc

Enjoy!

Posted By: mbbx6spp on July 10, 2007

Woops the links didn't come through in Markdown markup.

Project Website: http://twitter4r.rubyforge.org

Twitter4R v0.2.0 Release: http://snakesgemscoffee.blogspot.com/2007/07/twitter4r-020-release.html

Twitter4R v0.2.0 RDoc: http://twitter4r.rubyforge.org/releases/v0.2.0/rdoc/

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