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RoR and Twitter Mashup

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In this section, we will learn how to integrate Twitter statuses into our web site.

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Twitter4R Library

RubyGems comes to the rescue and makes it easy to install the Twitter4R library. Simply open a command window and type: 

 gem install twitter4r

If that doesn't work, download the tarball or zip packages manually:

There is quite a lot of documentation on Twitter4R. Please see: 

* http://twitter4r.rubyforge.org/rdoc/
* http://twitter4r.rubyforge.org/articles/
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Rails Twitter4R Files

Now let's put Twitter in our web site.

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Main Files

First get the Twitter4R Rails files add them to your Rails home directory: 

* http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/23274/twitter4rails.post-0_2_4.zip

Next, make these changes:

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Customize Twitter for Rails Application

Copy config/twitter.yml.conf to config/twitter.yml and edit it as needed.

Append and uncomment the following to your config/environment.rb as is applicable to your Rails application: 

#  Twitter::Client.configure do |conf|
#    # We can set Twitter4R to use <tt>:ssl</tt> or <tt>:http</tt> to connect to the Twitter API.
#    # Defaults to <tt>:ssl</tt>
#    conf.protocol = :ssl
#
#    # We can set Twitter4R to use another host name (perhaps for internal
#    # testing purposes).
#    # Defaults to 'twitter.com'
#    conf.host = 'twitter.com'
#
#    # We can set Twitter4R to use another port (also for internal 
#    # testing purposes).
#    # Defaults to 443
#    conf.port = 443
#    
#    # We can set proxy information for Twitter4R
#    # By default all following values are set to <tt>nil</tt>.
#    conf.proxy_host = 'myproxy.host'
#    conf.proxy_port = 8080
#    conf.proxy_user = 'myuser'
#    conf.proxy_pass = 'mypass'
#
#    # We can also change the User-Agent and X-Twitter-Client* HTTP headers
#    conf.user_agent = 'MyAppAgentName'
#    conf.application_name = 'MyAppName'
#    conf.application_version = 'v1.5.6'
#    conf.application_url = 'http://myapp.url'
# 
#    # Twitter (not Twitter4R) will have to setup a source ID for your application to get it 
#    # recognized by the web interface according to your preferences.
#    # To see more information how to go about doing this, please referen to the following thread:
#    # http://groups.google.com/group/twitter4r-users/browse_thread/thread/c655457fdb127032
#    conf.source = "your-source-id-that-twitter-recognizes"
#  
#  end

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