Plugin to update twitter status

Just uploaded version 0.1 of a Ruby on Rails plugin "simple_twitter_post" to github:

* http://github.com/stephan-buckmaster/simple_twitter_post

Makes it easy to update the twitter status of a configurable account with this interface:

  p = SimpleTwitterPost::Base.new   p.post("Welcome our new member ':user_name'. Profile is at :url", :user_name => user.name, :url => user.url)

Result: Natural version of this message appears in the Twitter time line.

Notes:

* The :url value is passed through tinyurl.com * If values of :user_name (or other keys) cause the message to exceed the 140 limit, they are truncated. The URL is not truncated, if possible.

More in the README file, http://github.com/stephan-buckmaster/simple_twitter_post

Uses Basic Authentication at the moment. Twitter says this will be discontinued in a few weeks (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_faq)

This version is for feedback on the interface, see above. Incorporating one of the twitter-gems for OAUTH to come.

Stephan

Stephan Wehner wrote:

GitHub - stephan-buckmaster/simple_twitter_post: Ruby on Rails plugin to post status updates to twitter

Uses Basic Authentication at the moment. Twitter says this will be discontinued in a few weeks (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_faq)

I updated a week ago to OAuth (using grackle)

Stephan