[Rails] YAJL in Rails to pull from streaming APIs

[matthew vb]

I'm trying to get an app running to pull data from a variety of
streaming APIs. I'm staring with the Twitter API and will be moving to
others following. I'd prefer not to use an API-specific gem like
TweetStream so I can reuse code and make things more efficient.

I'm using YAJL (open to suggestions on other gems) to pull from the
stream, but am getting an error when connecting. My code for the
connection is: (username/password removed):

max_allowed_errors = 1200
consecutive_errors = 0
while consecutive_errors < max_allowed_errors do
  url =
URI.parse("https://[username]:[password]!@stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.json";)
  begin
    Yajl::HttpStream.get(url) do |status|
      consecutive_errors = 0
     # puts status.inspect
    end
  rescue Yajl::HttpStream::InvalidContentType
    consecutive_errors += 1
  end
  sleep(0.25*consecutive_errors)
end

The error is:

Yajl::HttpStream::HttpError in DashboardsController#streamit

Code 200 expected got 0

The error refers to this line:

Yajl::HttpStream.get(url) do |status|


Appreciate any support on getting this running.

Thanks,
-matthew

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