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user3431704
user3431704

Reputation: 103

Twitter Rest API with Rails to Display

I have experience only in making small simple apps in PHP, Java and ASP.NET. I had no idea what GET, SET etc exactly are and what REST services are. To try to use the Twitter API, I did some reading and got to know (I might be wrong here, because this is what I THINK that I know..) that you can make a GET request like this one: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json

I just need guideline on how can I display ( of a specific account ) number of followers, retweets, tweets, follwing, how the long the account was created, etc by using Ruby on Rails. I am not asking you to give me bread, I'm asking you to tell me what should I do to learn to fish?

Would you please like to tell me where to start? Eitherway, I tried my examples and tutorials but sorry to say that none of them even worked to just authroize my page via twitter.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1014

Answers (2)

Jonny
Jonny

Reputation: 471

I recommend using the Twitter API It helps simplify the process.

If you are just setting this up for a single account this part of the twitter docs is useful https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/tokens-devtwittercom

As other people will most likely stumble across this, here are my steps to setting up the twitter api for a single user in rails.

Follow twitter documentation above to set up authorization tokens

Gemfile
gem 'twitter'

Create a helper twitter_helper.rb using environment variables to store your keys

module TwitterHelper
  def self.get_client
    Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
      config.consumer_key = ENV["CONSUMER_KEY"]
      config.consumer_secret = ENV['CONSUMER_SECRET']
      config.access_token = ENV['ACCESS_TOKEN']
      config.access_token_secret = ENV['TOKEN_SECRET']
    end
  end

  def get_client
    TwitterHelper.client
  end
end

Then do something like

client = TwitterHelper.get_client
client.friends.all

to return all friends of the account set up.

Upvotes: 1

steve
steve

Reputation: 2638

I suggest starting out with this online book: Ruby On Rails Tutorial - Michael Hartl

This book covers everything you will need to know to get started including what REST services are and how to setup and install rails.

It might take a few days to go through the entire book but once you do you will know exactly what to do to make your app happen.

Upvotes: 0

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