Sending and receiving text messages in Rails with Twitter

In this tutorial I cover how to set up a basic Ruby on Rails 2.2.2 application and how to connect it to the Twitter API. Then I demonstrate receiving and sending Tweets, i.e. text messages through Twitter. I’ve also shared the code in Google Code.

WHOOZ Tutorial: Sending and receiving text messages in Rails with Twitter

Download the code for this tutorial here: whooz-twittter-integration.zip (LGPL 3.0)

This code requires Rails 2 – if you have OS X 10.5, it ships with 1.2; you can upgrade with the commands sudo gem update --system and sudo gem install rails