Accessing Twitter via the Interactive Ruby Shell (irb)

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I was looking for a simple Ruby solution for updating messages through irb. I found these Ruby class options:

Twitter by John Nunemaker — this is the most complete one.
Twittery, a very simple class that uploads photos through the TwitPic API. The project is maintained by Chris Ledet.

I used the class from the Twittery project as a learning starting point because I wanted a quick and simple solution, even though it doesn’t have the security of the OAuth authentication protocol already included in John Nunemaker’s project.

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Accessing Twitter via the Interactive Ruby Shell (irb)