# Plugin to update twitter status

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-to-update-twitter-status/192433>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 30, 2010, 10:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-to-update-twitter-status/192433 "2010-07-30T10:00:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![stephanwehner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@stephanwehner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stephanwehner)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 10:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-to-update-twitter-status/192433/1 "2010-07-30T10:00:13Z")

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Just uploaded version 0.1 of a Ruby on Rails plugin  
“simple\_twitter\_post” to github:

- [GitHub - stephan-buckmaster/simple\_twitter\_post: Ruby on Rails plugin to post status updates to twitter](http://github.com/stephan-buckmaster/simple_twitter_post)

Makes it easy to update the twitter status of a configurable account  
with this interface:

p = SimpleTwitterPost::Base.new  
p.post(“Welcome our new member ‘:user\_name’. Profile is at :url”,  
:user\_name =\> user.name, :url =\> user.url)

Result: Natural version of this message appears in the Twitter time  
line.

Notes:

- The :url value is passed through [tinyurl.com](http://tinyurl.com)
- If values of :user\_name (or other keys) cause the message to exceed  
the 140 limit, they are truncated. The URL is not truncated, if  
possible.

More in the README file,

> **[GitHub - stephan-buckmaster/simple\_twitter\_post: Ruby on Rails plugin to post...](https://github.com/stephan-buckmaster/simple_twitter_post)**
>
> Ruby on Rails plugin to post status updates to twitter - GitHub - stephan-buckmaster/simple\_twitter\_post: Ruby on Rails plugin to post status updates to twitter

Uses Basic Authentication at the moment. Twitter says this will be  
discontinued in a few weeks ([http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth\_faq](http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_faq))

This version is for feedback on the interface, see above. Incorporating  
one of the twitter-gems for OAUTH to come.

Stephan

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**Author:** ![stephanwehner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@stephanwehner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stephanwehner)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 8:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-to-update-twitter-status/192433/2 "2010-08-20T08:21:36Z")

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Stephan W. wrote:

> [GitHub - stephan-buckmaster/simple\_twitter\_post: Ruby on Rails plugin to post status updates to twitter](http://github.com/stephan-buckmaster/simple_twitter_post)
> 
> Uses Basic Authentication at the moment. Twitter says this will be  
> discontinued in a few weeks ([http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth\_faq](http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_faq))

I updated a week ago to OAuth (using grackle)

Stephan