sample-ruby-app
Sample Ruby App that consumes and from the Twitter Streaming API,
displaying the data on a map and streaming the tweets in a pauseable timeline.
Demo
Check out a live demo of the app here: http://twitterdevdemo.com/map
Censor Stream Query Param
Append ?censor=true to attempt filtering out obscene tweets from the stream (no guarantees!).
Requirements
To run this app, you will need the following dependencies:
- Ruby >= 2.0.0
- Bundler
- RVM (optional)
Getting Started
To configure and run this example, do the following:
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Go to https://apps.twitter.com/ to generate access tokens for your application, any application built on the twitter API requires authentication tokens.
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Clone this repo or download the code and unzip
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cd sample-ruby-app -
Create a file
config/twitter.ymland supply your access tokens in this file. You could copyconfig/example.twitter.ymland simply fill it in with your access tokens:
cp config/example.twitter.yml config/twitter.yml
development:
#API key/secret
consumer_key: API_KEY
consumer_secret: API_SECRET
#Access token/secret
access_token: ACCESS_TOKEN
access_token_secret: ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
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If on OSX and using homebrew, you may need
brew link autoconfif it has not been linked already -
bundle install -
bundle exec ruby app.rb [OPTIONS]
Options
Available options:
-s, --server SERVER Server to run
--host HOST Host to run on
-p, --port PORT Server port
-h, --help Show this message