Question

I am trying to setup the Twitter gem, and I feel like I’m almost there… kind of.

Right now I was trying to follow this link:
http://www.phyowaiwin.com/how-to-download-and-display-twitter-feeds-for-new-year-resolution-using-ruby-on-rails

It is a bit old though, and I guess its instructions are a bit out of date. I have created a twitter model, twitter db migration and a twitter controller(not sure it’s needed though), and if i open rails console, and I type:

Twitter.user_timeline("whatever").first.text

It just works. I just can’t seem to be able to see it in my view. can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Alex

In your controller that corresponds with your view, you need to assign your results to a variable inside the appropriate functionlike so:

def controller_function
  @twitter_data = Twitter.user_timeline("whatever").first.text
end

Then, in your corresponding view you can use the variable

<%= @twitter_data ... %>

Check out http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html for more guidance on controllers and views