{"id":35,"date":"2008-08-29T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.monnet-usa.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2008-08-29T08:48:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T13:48:34","slug":"tweets-on-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.monnet-usa.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Tweets on Rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple months I have been experimenting with <a title=\"Techarch's Tweets\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/techarch\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> as a way to do some micro-blogging. In general I prefer blogging about a topic rather than just something I am doing. Micro-blogging is a nice and convenient way to synch up with your fellow geeks on your geek activities.<\/p>\n<p>I actually came to Twitter throught reading about site using Ruby on Rails. And recently while investigating cloud computing I came across some very interesting articles about how Twitter (specifically Blaine Cook) scaled out their site:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Scaling Out Twitter Presentation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/Blaine\/scaling-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\">slides<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/laughingmeme.org\/2007\/04\/12\/twitter-ruby-and-scaling\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stakeventures.com\/articles\/2007\/04\/23\/video-of-blaine-cooks-scaling-twitter\" target=\"_blank\">video of Blaine Cook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Twitter has a channel for <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/twitter4r\" target=\"_blank\">twitter4r<\/a>, its Ruby API, which is now being moved from RubyForge to <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/mbbx6spp\/twitter4r\/tree\/master\" target=\"_blank\">GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For this blog, I just added my last 5 &#8220;tweets&#8221; to my new &#8220;recent Twitter chatter&#8221; panel on the sidebar by following Remy Sharp&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/remysharp.com\/2007\/05\/18\/add-twitter-to-your-blog-step-by-step\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new gymnastics web site I am building using Rails will also have a dedicated Twitter channel, so I am planning on using twitter4r for that. Watch for updates on this in a month or so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple months I have been experimenting with Twitter as a way to do some micro-blogging. In general I prefer blogging about a topic rather than just something I am doing. Micro-blogging is a nice and convenient way to synch up with your fellow geeks on your geek activities. I actually came to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-ruby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.monnet-usa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.monnet-usa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.monnet-usa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.monnet-usa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.monnet-usa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.monnet-usa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/blog.monnet-usa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.monnet-usa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.monnet-usa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.monnet-usa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}