Question

I want to write a Ruby application through which:

1. I can submit tweets to twitter.
2. I can submit a post to facebook.
3. I can manage real-time stats of tweets

Is there any twitter/facebook api for Ruby?

Answer 1

Streams of tweets:

Tweetmon is a great gem for keeping real-time track of tweets. Here’s an example of using it to get a stream of tweets on a specific keyword

 #!/usr/local/bin/ruby 

 if ARGV.size==1
   keyword = ARGV.shift
 else
   puts 'tweetmon usage: tweetmon <keyword>'
   exit 1
 end

 require 'yaml'
 require 'rubygems'
 require 'tweetstream'

 config = YAML::load(File.open(File.expand_path('~/.twitter')))
 user =config['username']
 password =config['password']

 TweetStream::Client.new(user,password).track(keyword) do |status|  
   puts "[#{status.created_at}-#{status.user.screen_name}] #{status.text}"
 end  

To use this gem you need:
gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
gem install intridea-tweetstream

To submit a tweet is just a HTTP POST – doesn’t need any extra libraries to do this.