Based on their example, I got this to work:
---------- start code ----------
require 'rubygems'
require 'tweetstream'
require 'ruby-growl'
username = 'blinkdev'
password = **secret**
tracks = ['#ROCKPIC']
puts "Starting a GrowlTweet to track: #{tracks.inspect}"
TweetStream::Daemon.new(username,password).track(*tracks) do |status|
g = Growl.new 'localhost', 'growltweet', ['tweet']
g.notify 'tweet', status.user.screen_name, status.text
end
---------- end code ----------
And run it from the command line like
$ruby test.rb start
$ruby test.rb stop
So I want to pull that into my rails app, I wrote this file to load the
environment, and save the statuses
---------- start code ----------
# file: RAILS_ROOT/jobs/twitter_stream.rb
ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = ARGV.shift
require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment")
require 'rubygems'
require 'tweetstream'
username = 'blinkdev'
password = **secret**
tracks = ['#ROCKPIC']
TweetStream::Daemon.new(username,password).track(*tracks) do |status|
Rockpic.new( :message =>
"[#{status.created_at}-#{status.user.screen_name}] #{status.text}" ).save!
end
---------- end code ----------
and then to load it, I created
---------- start code ----------
# file: RAILS_ROOT/config/initializers/twitter_stream.rb
puts 'pre'
system "#{%x(which ruby).chomp}
#{File.join(RAILS_ROOT,'jobs','twitter_stream.rb')} #{ENV['RAILS_ENV']}
restart"
puts 'post'
---------- end code ----------
But it never finishes that command, when I start my server it just keeps
writing 'pre' over and over, implying to me that it is recursively calling
itself. ie the initializer starts the daemon, which requires the
environment, which runs the initializer, which starts the daemon, etc.
I figure if I can get it to realize that it is already running, then I
should be good, but I'm not very experienced with this, and don't know how
to check for that. Api doesn't look like it offers a way, but looking at the
code shows that it uses Daemons underneath of it. Not sure how to do it,
still, though. Any help is appreciated.
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