tweetwall 0.0.1 → 0.0.2

data/README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Tweetwall
 
-TODO: Write a gem description
+This Gem makes it very wasy to add a Tweet Wall of Twitter feeds for a particular Twitter user
+on your web application.
 
 ## Installation
 
@@ -18,7 +19,12 @@ Or install it yourself as:
 
 ## Usage
 
-TODO: Write usage instructions here
+The print_tweets method returns an HTML division of Tweets.
+Simply call the print_tweets method like so:
+Tweetwall.print_tweets("oceancucumber")
+
+Optionally, you can specify they number of tweets:
+Tweetwall.print_tweets("oceancucumber", 10)
 
 ## Contributing
 

data/lib/tweetwall/version.rb

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Tweetwall
-  VERSION = "0.0.1"
+  VERSION = "0.0.2"
 end

data/lib/tweetwall.rb

@@ -3,19 +3,45 @@ require "twitter"
 
 module Tweetwall
   def self.print_tweets(twitter_user, number_of_tweets=5)
-    tweet_wall_html = ""
-    twitter_feed = Twitter.user_timeline(twitter_user)[0..number_of_tweets]
-    twitter_image = Twitter.user(twitter_user).profile_image_url
+    tweet_html = String.new
+    tweet_wall_html = String.new
+    twitter_image = String.new
+    twitter_feed = Array.new
 
-    tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '<div id="tweet_wall">'
-    twitter_feed.each do |tweet|
-      tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '<div class="tweet_image">'
-      tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '<img src="' + twitter_image + '" alt="" class="tweet_image" /> '
-      tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '<span class="tweet_text">' + tweet.text + '</span><br />'
+    begin
+      # Get the tweets from the feed
+      twitter_feed = Twitter.user_timeline(twitter_user)[0..number_of_tweets]
+
+      # Get the twitter user's profile picture
+      twitter_image = Twitter.user(twitter_user).profile_image_url
+
+      tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '<div id="tweet_wall">'
+      twitter_feed.each do |tweet|
+        tweet_html = tweet.text
+
+        # if there's a hyperlink, make it clickable
+        words = tweet_html.split(" ")
+        words.each do |word|
+          if word.start_with?("http://") or word.start_with?("https://")
+            tweet_html = tweet_html.gsub(word, '<a href="' + word + '" target="_blank">' + word + '</a>') 
+          end
+        end
+
+        tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '<div class="tweet_line">'
+        tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '<img src="' + twitter_image + '" alt="" class="tweet_image" /> '
+        tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '<span class="tweet_text">' + tweet_html + '</span><br />'
+        tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '</div>'
+      end
       tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '</div>'
-    end
-    tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '</div>'
 
-    tweet_wall_html
+      tweet_wall_html
+    rescue
+      "Unable to fetch tweets."
+    ensure
+      twitter_feed = nil
+      twitter_image = nil
+      tweet_wall_html = nil
+      tweet_html = nil
+    end
   end
 end

metadata

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
 name: tweetwall
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-  version: 0.0.1
+  version: 0.0.2
   prerelease: 
 platform: ruby
 authors: