Tweet Tracker

Live demo: Tweet Tracker

About

Tweet Tracker is a Rails CRUD app that allows you to search for tweets by user's Twitter handle or by keywords, and save them for future reference.

Dependency

  gem 'twitter'
  gem 'omniauth'
  gem 'omniauth-twitter'

API

Retrieve 5 most recent tweets from an user timeline by making a GET request to 'http://socialtrackr.herokuapp.com/search/' + twitter_handle

Specs

Use of Twitter API gem to fetch content.

Installation

Sign up at http://dev.twitter.com for an API key and API secret and put them in your environment. For example, in ~/.bash_profile:

export ST_TWITTER_KEY ="[API key]" export ST_TWITTER_SECRET="[API secret]"

Or on heroku: heroku config:set ST_TWITTER_KEY ="[API key]" ST_TWITTER_SECRET="[API secret]

Development

• Start app: $ bundle exec rails s
• Create the database: bin/rails db:create