Initial checkin of Tweeter Keeper ruby tool

README

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+Tweeter Keeper is built on top of other people's work - I didn't see any reason to reinvent the wheel.
+
+TweetStream gem - reads tweets off of Twitter's streaming API and provides a Ruby block with the tweets.
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+Twitter gem - for use with the other Twitter API's - use to get followers for a user, user's tweet timeline, etc. We can use this to backfill in the history for users we follow on the streaming side. Some methods on this will require OAuth authentication
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+MongoDB - NoSQL database that uses BSON (similar to JSON) for inserting and retrieving data, making it easy to dump data directly from Twitter without processing. 
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+Mongo gem - Use the Mongo Ruby Driver directly, instead of an abstraction library
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+Install
+=============
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+Environment - requires Ruby and MongoDB.
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+gem install tweetstream
+gem install twitter
+gem install mongo
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+

tweeter-keeper.rb

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+require 'rubygems'
+require 'tweetstream'
+require 'mongo'
+
+#set up a connection to a local MongoDB
+@db = Mongo::Connection.new.db("tweeterkeeper")
+
+#all tweets will be stored in a collection called tweets
+@tweets = @db.collection("tweets")
+
+@tracking_keywords = Array['drupal','mongodb','three20'];
+
+@client = TweetStream::Client.new('USERNAME','PASSWORD')
+
+@client.on_delete do |status_id, user_id|
+  puts "Removing #{status_id} from storage"
+  @tweets.remove({"status" => status_id})
+end
+
+@client.track(*@tracking_keywords) do |status|
+  puts "#{status.text}"
+ @tweets.insert(status)
+end