Question

I should say I’m new to Ruby. I just managed to create a Twitter app and configure The Twitter Ruby Gem to tweet, display tweets and so on. The problem is that when I fetch tweets, the actual content is not displayed, instead, I get somehting like #<Twitter::Tweet:0x2a3de78>.

I simply use this code snippet:

puts Twitter.status(123456789)

Answer 1

That’s because the Twitter.status method returns an instance of the class Twitter::Tweet.

To extract data from Twitter::Tweet you have to call some methods on it, like text:

puts Twitter.status(...).text