Notes on how to write tiny terminal Twitter write-only client

installing ruby and twitter api

1. Install ruby
2. Install twitter api

$ gem install twitter

registering your app with twitter

Just follow these simple instructions.

writing a code

Create twoc.rb file. Be sure you include Twitter API in your project:

require 'twitter'

Pass configurations options as a block to Twitter::REST::Client.new.

client = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
  config.consumer_key        = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY"
  config.consumer_secret     = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"
  config.access_token        = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
  config.access_token_secret = "YOUR_ACCESS_SECRET"
end

After that you can tweet, follow a user, stream tweets etc. In our case we just need to update a status:

client.update("Hello world!")

But we would like to write any tweet, so in order to do that we should receive a tweet as an argument:

tweet = ARGV[0]
client.update(tweet)

So if we type in console ruby twoc.rb "Hello world!", your status would be updated with tweet “Hello world!”.

Whole text of app:

require 'twitter'

client = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
  config.consumer_key        = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY"
  config.consumer_secret     = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"
  config.access_token        = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
  config.access_token_secret = "YOUR_ACCESS_SECRET"
end

tweet = ARGV[0]

if tweet.length <= 140
  client.update(tweet)
else
  puts "Your tweet must be less than 140 characters!"
end