Module: Tweetwall

Defined in:
lib/tweetwall.rb,
lib/tweetwall/version.rb

Constant Summary collapse

VERSION = 
"0.0.6"

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.print_tweet_content(twitter_user, number_of_tweets = 5) ⇒ Object

This method prints out just the tweet content. Usefull if you want to do an AJAX refresh of your Tweets without reloading the whole page



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# File 'lib/tweetwall.rb', line 17

def self.print_tweet_content(twitter_user, number_of_tweets=5)
  begin
    # working with an array that starts at 0
    number_of_tweets = number_of_tweets - 1

    # Get the tweets from the feed
    twitter_feed = Twitter.user_timeline(twitter_user)[0..number_of_tweets]

    # Get the twitter user's profile picture
    twitter_image = Twitter.user(twitter_user).profile_image_url

    # This variable needs to be declared because of the scop of the each\do block
    tweet_content = String.new

    twitter_feed.each do |tweet|
      # Process the tweet
      tweet_html = tweet.text

      words = tweet_html.split(" ")
      words.each do |word|
        # if there's a hyperlink, make it clickable
        if word.start_with?("http://") or word.start_with?("https://")
          tweet_html = tweet_html.gsub(word, '<a href="' + word + '" target="_blank">' + word + '</a>')
        end
  
        # if someone has been mentioned, make that clickable
        if word.start_with?("@")
          tweet_html = tweet_html.gsub(word, '<a href="http://www.twitter.com/#!/' + word.gsub(/\W$/, "").gsub("@", "") + '" target="_blank">' + word + '</a>')
        end

        # make the hashtag clickable
        if word.start_with?("#")
          tweet_html = tweet_html.gsub(word, '<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/' + word.gsub("#", "%23") + '">' + word + '</a>')
        end
      end

      tweet_content = tweet_content + '<div class="tweet_line">'
      tweet_content = tweet_content + '<a href="http://www.twitter.com/#!/' + twitter_user + '" target="_blank"><img src="' + twitter_image + '" alt="" class="tweet_image" /></a> '
      tweet_content = tweet_content + '<span class="tweet_text">' + tweet_html + '</span><br />'
      tweet_content = tweet_content + '</div>'
    end

    tweet_content
  rescue
    "Tweets not available"
  end
end

.print_tweets(twitter_user, number_of_tweets = 5) ⇒ Object

This method prints the entire DIV of the tweet_wall in your html



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# File 'lib/tweetwall.rb', line 7

def self.print_tweets(twitter_user, number_of_tweets=5)
  begin
    '<div id="tweet_wall">' + self.print_tweet_content(twitter_user, number_of_tweets) + '</div>'
  rescue
    ""
  end
end