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Ruby

Michael Sikora
Michael Sikora
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Posted by Michael Sikora
Michael Sikora
9,409 Points

Twitter gem and the Streaming Twitter API

I'm using the twitter gem to get tweets from a user's timeline and display them in my Ruby on Rails App. Using the REST API I can pull the tweets I want to but I want it to update live, so I need to use the Streaming API (I think). When I try to run the server with the configuration set to the Streaming API and using this code:

<% topics = ["UMD", "bitcamp"]%>
<%client.filter(:track => topics.join(",")) do |object|%>
  <p><%= object.text if object.is_a?(Twitter::Tweet) %></p>
<% end %>

The server gets stuck "processing controller#index as HTML". This is just test code, because my ultimate goal is to grab the latest 20 tweets.

Sorry this is pretty basic stuff, I've just started to learn ruby on rails and the Twitter API and I'm struggling to find a useful resource for learning.

  • Mike

2 Answers

Naomi Freeman
STAFF
Naomi Freeman
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Naomi Freeman
Naomi Freeman
Treehouse Guest Teacher

My initial instinct is your controller needs to be saved as file type .rb instead of .html

I could be wrong though. Do you have this up on github so we can look at it? Thanks :)

Michael Sikora
Michael Sikora
9,409 Points
Michael Sikora
Michael Sikora
9,409 Points

Thanks for getting back to me! Here's the specific file on git, there's not much going on in the rest of the app but please look around.

https://github.com/mikesikora/tweet_test/blob/master/app/views/welcome/index.html.erb