Question

I am new to Ruby and had a quick question.

I am trying to get all of the posts from a user’s timeline, so I figured I would need to do a user_timeline api call to twitter and then filter out the posts manually. Then, while reading the Ruby Twitter documentation, I found this:

puts Twitter.user_timeline(“twitter_handle”).first.text

…and that will return the post already parsed out.

Is there a way to get more than just the first post automatically parsed out like that, or is that just an array method for the first and last object in the array?

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to iterate over each object.

Twitter.user_timeline("twitter_handle").each do |tweet|
    puts tweet.text
end

The first and last methods are just convenience methods on arrays.