tuiter

= Tuiter

Tuiter was design and developed by {Manoel Lemos}[http://manoellemos.com] to provide access to the Twitter API. It was developed for the experimental project called {Tuitersfera Brasil}[http://tuitersfera.com.br], an application to monitor the Twitter usage in Brazil.

Both Tuiter and Tuitersfera were adopted, further developed and maintained by {Webco Internet}[http://webcointernet.com].

== Instalation

Tuiter is avaliable as a gem on {Rubyforge}[http://rubyforge.org/projects/tuiter/], so you can easily install using rubygems:

gem install tuiter

Although it is recommended to use the gem published on Rubyforge, tuiter is also avaliable at Github. This might be useful if you want to experiment with forks or live on the bleeding edge.

To install the Github version, simply run on a console:

gem install webco-tuiter --source=http://gems.github.com

If you already have Github gem repository on you gem source, you can leave the source part out.

== Basic Usage

require 'tuiter'
client = Tuiter::Client.new(:username => '<twitter_login>', :password => '<twitter_pwd>')

client.update('Hey Ho, Twitters!')

There are (or at least we want to add :-) another examples in the examples/ folder.

== Using OAuth

require 'tuiter'
client = Tuiter::Client.new(:authentication => :oauth, :consumer_key => 'YOUR_KEY', :consumer_secret => 'YOUR_SECRET')

# request token from Twitter
rtoken = client.request_token
# waits for token
# stores token and secret
token, secret = rtoken.token, rtoken.secret   # you could store this on session, db, etc

# redirect to authorize url
rtoken.authorize_url
# user authenticate in twitter domains

# the code below goes in the callback accessed by Twitter
access_token = client.authorize(token,secret)
# checks if everything's ok
if client.authorized?
  # have fun
  15.times do
    client.update('All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy')
  end
end

If you already have the token and secret of the user (from database, for example), you just have to do the following to authenticate them:

client = Tuiter::Client.new(:authentication => :oauth, :consumer_key => 'YOUR_KEY', :consumer_secret => 'YOUR_SECRET', :token => token, :secret => secret)
if client.authorized?
  # have fun
  15.times do
    client.update('All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy')
  end
end

Register your Twitter client at http://twitter.com/oauth_clients

== Roadmap and TO-DO list

Check out the library roadmap and to-do list {in the project wiki}[http://wiki.github.com/webco/tuiter]