Show tweet text as the rollover hint on links that go to a status

.gems

@@ -14,4 +14,5 @@ newrelic_rpm
 texticle
 term_extraction
 addressable
-darkhelmet-sanitize
+darkhelmet-sanitize
+hashie

darkblog.rb

@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
 named_routes[:redirections] = '/redirections'
 named_routes[:announce] = '/announce'
 named_routes[:admin_index] = '/index'
+named_routes[:twitter] = '/twitter/:status'
 
 # main index with pagination
 named_route(:get, :index) do |page|
@@ -288,4 +289,10 @@
   @posts = Post.published.ptitle(title)
   not_found if @posts.empty?
   redirect(@posts.first.permalink, 301)
+end
+
+# get twitter statuses
+named_route(:post, :twitter) do |status_id|
+  content_type('text/plain')
+  individual_tweet(status_id).text
 end

lib/blog_helper.rb

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 require 'texticle'
 require 'term_extraction'
 require 'sanitize'
+require 'hashie'
 
 class String
   def url_encode
@@ -258,6 +259,10 @@ def announce
       RestClient.get('http://pingomatic.com/ping/?title=verbose+logging&blogurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.darkhax.com%2F&rssurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.darkhax.com%2Ffeed&chk_weblogscom=on&chk_blogs=on&chk_technorati=on&chk_feedburner=on&chk_syndic8=on&chk_newsgator=on&chk_myyahoo=on&chk_pubsubcom=on&chk_blogdigger=on&chk_blogrolling=on&chk_blogstreet=on&chk_moreover=on&chk_weblogalot=on&chk_icerocket=on&chk_newsisfree=on&chk_topicexchange=on&chk_google=on&chk_tailrank=on&chk_bloglines=on&chk_postrank=on&chk_skygrid=on&chk_collecta=on')
       RestClient.get('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/pingSubmit?bloglink=http://blog.darkhax.com/')
     end
+
+    def individual_tweet(id)
+      Hashie::Mash.new(Crack::JSON.parse(RestClient.get("http://twitter.com/statuses/show/#{id}.json")))
+    end
   end
 
   module Caching

public/javascripts/jquery.darkhax.js

@@ -46,4 +46,16 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
     return 'url' + index + '=' + encodeURIComponent(a.href);
   }).join('&');
   $.getScript('http://disqus.com/forums/verboselogging/get_num_replies.js?' + query);
+
+  $('#posts-container a').each(function() {
+    var re = /http:\/\/twitter\.com\/\w+\/status\/(\d+)/;
+    var matches = re.exec($(this).attr('href'));
+    if (null != matches && 1 < matches.length) {
+      var id = matches[1];
+      var link = this;
+      $.post('/twitter/' + id, null, function(data) {
+        $(link).attr('title', data);
+      }, 'text');
+    }
+  });
 });