MrCorrecter is a friendly guy, he searches Twitter for spelling mistakes and replies to the tweets pointing out to the tweeters that they have misspelled a word.
First off, if mr-correcter has offended or annoyed anyone in particular I must apologise for him; he means no harm and is just trying to help the world's spelling.
mr-correcter is mainly a development exercise, a little play thing; he is just a few lines of code to play around with the Twitter gem. This app searches Twitter using the Twitter API for spelling mistakes, these actually being a common misspelling of a particular word as opposed to any dictionary based testing. The code then creates a reply and again using the Twitter API will reply_to the Tweet with the correct spelling of the word.
It appears that not many people enjoy being corrected and reply back to mr-correcter and he receives a fair amount of abuse back from the mispellers, have a look at some of the replies to him.
In order to use this code you will have to checkout this repo and change the Twitter API credentials used.
bundle install.- Create and edit
config.yml(seeconfig.example.ymlfor details) or amend the configuration block inRakefile. Alter parameters and add Twitter API credentials. Also edit corrections if necessary. - Ready to go.
To run mr-correcter, after editing any configuration, just run the rake task then sit back and enjoy mayhem.
$ rake runVerify mr-correcter spec.
$ rake specThis project is available for use under the MIT software license. See LICENSE