Getting Twitter data from RoR app

Question

I have a RoR 3 application and I'm trying to integrate it with Twitter. So what do I need?

I need to count how many tweets with a certain hashtag (like #awesometag) were tweeted by users that follow me.

There are many ways to do this, as I saw while searching online. However, I want to know the most reliable way to do this.

Thanks!

Answer 1

There is a Twitter gem for all this stuff. If im not mistaken there is a Search class for doing what you want. More info about this gem