Tweet Tracker
Live demo: Tweet Tracker
About
Tweet Tracker is a Rails CRUD app that allows you to search for tweets by user's Twitter handle or by keywords, and save them for future reference.
Dependency
gem 'twitter'
gem 'omniauth'
gem 'omniauth-twitter'
API
Retrieve 5 most recent tweets from an user timeline by making a GET request to 'http://socialtrackr.herokuapp.com/search/' + twitter_handle
Specs
Use of Twitter API gem to fetch content.
Installation
Sign up at http://dev.twitter.com for an API key and API secret and put them in your environment. For example, in ~/.bash_profile:
export ST_TWITTER_KEY ="[API key]" export ST_TWITTER_SECRET="[API secret]"
Or on heroku:
heroku config:set ST_TWITTER_KEY ="[API key]" ST_TWITTER_SECRET="[API secret]
Development
- Start app:
$ bundle exec rails s - Create the database:
bin/rails db:create