LyreBird

Twitter Gateway, allows your app to respond to natural language questions from Twitter.

Requirements

• HTTParty github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/ - For accessing the Twitter web service.

SYNOPSIS

class LyresController
  def index(response,history={},tweet_params={})
    response.register_response(tweet_params) # Register the response that it can be persistent between tweets.
    return "LyresController INDEX called" # Return text which will be used for the body of your response tweet.
  end
  def show(response,history={},tweet_params={})
    response.register_response(tweet_params)
    return "LyresController SHOW called" 
  end
end
require 'rubygems'
require 'lyre_bird'
routes = [ 
		{ 	'str' => "Do you have a :item for me" },
		{

‘str’ => “:item in :location”, ‘class’ => ‘LyresController’, # Specify class to be called when this route is matched. ‘method’ => ‘show’

		}		
 ]

 lyre = LyreBird::Base.new('<TWITTER_USERNAME>','<TWITTER_PASSWORD>', {
   :routes => routes,
   :since_filename => File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/listenSince.txt', # STRING - File used to store since_id,

:defaults => { :class => ‘LyresController’, # The default class you want to call when a response is successful :method => ‘index’ # The default method you want to call when a response is successful }

})
lyre.check() # Check for new messages.

Install

sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
sudo gem install simonreed-lyrebird