Middleman::Blog::Twitter

Tweet about the latest article on Middleman blog.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'middleman-blog-twitter'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install middleman-blog-twitter

Usage

1. Settings(Tweet text template)

Create ERB for tweet text(ex. tweet_template.txt.erb).

Blog updated: <%= latest_article.title %> <%= hostname %><%= latest_article.url %>

Available variables

name	value
latest_article	Middleman::Sitemap::Resource included Middleman::Blog::BlogArticle object of the latest blog article
hostname	Your blog hostname(set in the next section)

2. Settings(Tokens, hostname, and template path)

On config.rb

activate :blog_twitter do |twitter|
  twitter.consumer_key          = 'YOUR CONSUMER KEY'
  twitter.consumer_secret       = 'YOUR CONSUMER SECRET'
  twitter.access_token          = 'YOUR ACCESS TOKEN'
  twitter.access_token_secret   = 'YOUR ACCESS TOKEN SECRET'
  twitter.hostname              = 'http://example.com' # your blog hostname
  twitter.template_path         = 'tweet_template.txt.erb'
  twitter.force_tweet           = false  # If true, tweet regardless of the date of latest article. (Default: false)
  twitter.new_article_threshold = 1.hour # Tweet if date of latest article newer than threshold. (Default: 1.hour)
end

3. Execute command

$ middleman tweet

then

Blog updated: <latest article title> <latest article url>

Contributing

1. Fork it ( http://github.com//middleman-blog-twitter/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request