tweetwall 0.0.4 → 0.0.5

data/README.md

@@ -23,9 +23,19 @@ The print_tweets method returns an HTML division of Tweets.
 Simply call the print_tweets method like so:
 Tweetwall.print_tweets("oceancucumber")
 
+You'll get the full tweet_wall HTML division
+
 Optionally, you can specify the number of tweets:
 Tweetwall.print_tweets("oceancucumber", 10)
 
+There is also a function that you can call that will only print
+the Tweet content.  This is useful if you want to do an AJAX
+refresh on the tweet_wall division without refreshing the entire
+page:
+Tweetwall.print_tweet_content("oceancucumber", 10)
+
+The number of tweets is again optional.
+
 ## Contributing
 
 1. Fork it

data/lib/tweetwall.rb

@@ -2,21 +2,32 @@ require "tweetwall/version"
 require "twitter"
 
 module Tweetwall
+
+  # This method prints the entire DIV of the tweet_wall in your html
   def self.print_tweets(twitter_user, number_of_tweets=5)
-    tweet_html = String.new
-    tweet_wall_html = String.new
-    twitter_image = String.new
-    twitter_feed = Array.new
-    words = String.new
+    begin
+      '<div id="tweet_wall">' + self.print_tweet_content(twitter_user, number_of_tweets) + '</div>'
+    rescue
+      ""
+    end
+  end
 
+  # This method prints out just the tweet content.  Usefull if you want to do an AJAX refresh
+  # of your Tweets without reloading the whole page
+  def self.print_tweet_content(twitter_user, number_of_tweets=5)
     begin
+      # working with an array that starts at 0
+      number_of_tweets = number_of_tweets - 1
+
       # 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">'
+      # This variable needs to be declared because of the scop of the each\do block
+      tweet_content = String.new
+
       twitter_feed.each do |tweet|
         # Process the tweet
         tweet_html = tweet.text
@@ -25,7 +36,7 @@ module Tweetwall
         words.each do |word|
           # if there's a hyperlink, make it clickable
           if word.start_with?("http://") or word.start_with?("https://")
-            tweet_html = tweet_html.gsub(word, '<a href="' + word + '" target="_blank">' + word + '</a>') 
+            tweet_html = tweet_html.gsub(word, '<a href="' + word + '" target="_blank">' + word + '</a>')
           end
     
           # if someone has been mentioned, make that clickable
@@ -34,22 +45,16 @@ module Tweetwall
           end
         end
 
-        tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '<div class="tweet_line">'
-        tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '<a href="http://www.twitter.com/#!/' + twitter_user + '" target="_blank"><img src="' + twitter_image + '" alt="" class="tweet_image" /></a> '
-        tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '<span class="tweet_text">' + tweet_html + '</span><br />'
-        tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '</div>'
+        tweet_content = tweet_content + '<div class="tweet_line">'
+        tweet_content = tweet_content + '<a href="http://www.twitter.com/#!/' + twitter_user + '" target="_blank"><img src="' + twitter_image + '" alt="" class="tweet_image" /></a> '
+        tweet_content = tweet_content + '<span class="tweet_text">' + tweet_html + '</span><br />'
+        tweet_content = tweet_content + '</div>'
       end
-      tweet_wall_html = tweet_wall_html + '</div>'
 
-      tweet_wall_html
+      tweet_content
     rescue
-      "Unable to fetch tweets."
-    ensure
-      twitter_feed = nil
-      twitter_image = nil
-      tweet_wall_html = nil
-      tweet_html = nil
-      words = nil
+      "Tweets not available"
     end
   end
+
 end

data/lib/tweetwall/version.rb

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Tweetwall
-  VERSION = "0.0.4"
+  VERSION = "0.0.5"
 end

metadata

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
 name: tweetwall
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-  version: 0.0.4
+  version: 0.0.5
   prerelease: 
 platform: ruby
 authors:
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ authors:
 autorequire: 
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
-date: 2012-06-10 00:00:00.000000000Z
+date: 2012-06-16 00:00:00.000000000Z
 dependencies: []
 description: This Gem makes it very easy to add a wall of Tweets from a Twitter User
   in your web application.