From: Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...>
Date: 2011-02-15T05:43:10+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby - Twitter API

Rob Brennan wrote in post #977117:
> I am looking to retrieve data from TWitter - ideally I want the dta in
> Excel or SQL database.
>
> There are some open source API's out there using Ruby
>
> Specifically the one I am looking to use is -- - -
>
> https://github.com/squeejee/twitterland
>
> I have installed http://rubyinstaller.org/about

I recently played with this one and works great:

https://github.com/jnunemaker/twitter#readme

This is a simple test:

$ rvm use 1.8.7
$ gem install twitter yajl-ruby
$ irb
> require 'twitter'
> require 'yajl'
> puts Twitter.user("peter_v").location

HTH,

Peter

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