http://twitter.com/twitter4r

Status

Currently the most recent release of Twitter4R is 0.3.0, which now supports the following features:

• Added verify_credentials (see Twitter::Client#authenticate?) and  favorites (list, add and remove) features
• SSL support 
• Proxy support (including authenticated proxy support)

To find out more check out the official project website: http://twitter4r.rubyforge.org

Developers & Contributors

• Susan Potter - Manager, Lead Open Source Ruby Developer
• Kaiichi Matsunaga - Contributed proxy patch
• Sergio Santos - Contributed message paging patch 

Getting Started

This document assumes that you have basic Ruby and Ruby Gems knowledge and understanding:

• Install the Twitter4R Ruby Gem from the command line, like so: sudo gem install twitter4r
• Open up a Ruby prompt to start prototyping at the command prompt: irb
• In the Ruby irb session type:

  
  require "rubygems"
  gem 46#39;twitter4r46#39;, 46#39;46gt;750.3.046#39;
  require 47twitter47
  
  client = Twitter::Client.new(:login =46gt; 46#39;mylogin46#39;, :password =46gt; 46#39;mypassword46#39;)
  timeline = client.timeline_for(:public) do |status|
    puts "#{status.user.screen_name}: #{status.text}"
  end
  

The example above will get the current public timeline (last 20 statuses) and output the statuses in the format: screen_name: message one on its own line.

More Information

For more information check out the following blog entries and articles:

• Twitter4R Articles
• Twitter4R 0.3.0 Released 
• Twitter4R 0.2.5 Released 
• Twitter4R 0.2.0 Released
• Twitter4R 0.2.0 RDoc
• Twitter4R 0.1.1 Released
• Twitter4R Revamp
• Twitter4R 0.1.1 & 0.2.0 API Changes
• Twitter4R Official Blog

Feel free to follow Twitter4R's twitter updates at: http://twitter.com/twitter4r