Rails - Adding a command line script to my app - ruby-on-rails

Question

I don't like asking noobie questions but I've spent more time than I care to admit googling and trying to figure out this simple process. I'm trying to use the twitter gem to post tweets in my app's views.
I have this script that works when I run it on the command line, but I don't know how to access the data on my views. I have the gem installed. I tried adding this code to my controller but it still doesn't let me call it in the view.
require 'rubygems'
require 'twitter'
client = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
config.consumer_key = "(redacted)"
config.consumer_secret = "(redacted)"
config.access_token = "(redacted)"
config.access_token_secret = "(redacted)"
end
client.search("help", :result_type => "recent").take(3).each do |tweet|
puts tweet.text
end
If anyone can point me in the right direction, that would be great.

Answer 1

Well, I'll post some (untested) code that might help set you in the right direction. It's not the best way to do it, as it's not very flexible, but it should do what your example does. Make sure add the Twitter gem to your Gemfile and bundle install. Create a Ruby class called TweetsFromAccount. Saving it in the /lib directory works just fine.
class TweetsFromAccount
def initialize
#client = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
config.consumer_key = "(redacted)"
config.consumer_secret = "(redacted)"
config.access_token = "(redacted)"
config.access_token_secret = "(redacted)"
end
end
def recent_tweets(quantity)
array_of_tweets = []
#client.search("help", :result_type => "recent").take(quantity).each do |tweet|
array_of_tweets << tweet.text
end
end
end
In the controller, create a new TweetsFromAccount object and assign it to an instance variable, #tweets. Create an additional instance variable set the value of #tweets.recent_tweets(3). This should fetch the 3 most recent tweets.
def show
# other stuff
#tweets = TweetsFromAccount.new
#array_of_tweets = #tweets.recent_tweets(3)
end
Then in your view, just iterate over #array_of_tweets.
<ul>
<% #array_of_tweets.each do |tweet| %>
<li><%= tweet %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>