twitter4r

= Twitter4R

• Project Website - http://twitter4r.rubyforge.org
• Mailing List - http://groups.google.com/group/twitter4r-users

== Developers

• {Susan Potter}[http://SusanPotter.NET]

== Contributors Code:

• Kaiichi Matsunaga - proxy code suggestion
• Sergio Santos <> - message paging code suggestion
• Adam Stiles - URI.encode => CGI.escape fix
• Carl Crawley - Friendship get => post fix
• Christian Johansen - in_reply_to attributes in Twitter::Status
• Harry Love - added attributes to Twitter::Status
• Filipe Giusti - fixed users/show issue that Twitter.com changed from under us, also inspired the v0.5.2 bugfix release by submitting great issue example code.
• Seth Cousins <seth.cousins at gmail dot com> - added HTTP timeout option and provided a patch that inspired the OAuth support for Twitter4R
• John McKerrell <@mcknut on twitter> - added geo attribute to Twitter::Message.

Design Suggestions:

• Bosco So - making Twitter::Error a RuntimeError instead of an Exception to prevent irb from crashing out.

== Description Twitter4R provides an object based API to query or update your Twitter account via pure Ruby. It hides the ugly HTTP/REST code from your code.

== External Dependencies

• Ruby 1.8 (tested with 1.8.6)
• RSpec gem 1.0.0+ (tested with 1.1.3)
• JSON gem 0.4.3+ (tested with versions: 1.1.1 and 1.1.2)
• jcode (for unicode support)

== Usage Examples Twitter4R starting with version 0.1.1 and above is organized into seven parts:

• {Configuration API}[link:files/examples/configure_rb.html]
• {Friendship API}[link:files/examples/friendship_rb.html]
• {Messaging API}[link:files/examples/messaging_rb.html]
• {Model API}[link:files/examples/model_rb.html]
• {Status API}[link:files/examples/status_rb.html]
• {Timeline API}[link:files/examples/timeline_rb.html]
• {User API}[link:files/examples/user_rb.html]