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Asked: 2026-06-08T12:09:23+00:00

I was using the Twitter Widget for the longest time but I was looking

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I was using the Twitter Widget for the longest time but I was looking to step it up a level and add additional styling and filtering. Recently I got started with the Rails Twitter Gem and so far so good, but I wanted to be able to link back to profiles wherever @username appears.

Looking around it seems that Twitter Anywhere is the way to go, but I was wondering if there was a better implementation in a Rails environment? Perhaps a gem that loads the required JS files and provides helper methods?

Also I should note that I don’t necessarily require all of the functionality that the anywhere api offers, at the moment my main focus is just to provide the @username links (though it is certainly nice to have the option for future expansion).

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  1. Editorial Team

    It turns out that Twitter Anywhere might have been a little overkill for what I was trying to do. All I really needed was the following helper method as mentioned here

    def linkup_mentions_and_hashtags(text)    
  text.gsub!(/@([\w]+)(\W)?/, '<a href="http://twitter.com/\1">@\1</a>\2')
  text.gsub!(/#([\w]+)(\W)?/, '<a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23\1">#\1</a>\2')
  text
end
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