Request to add documentation about how to configured and setup the application source ID with Twitter on “Override configuration defaults?” thread on twitter4r-users Google
A user of Twitter4R, Sergio Santos (also developer of TwitterNotes.com), requested message paging support in Twitter4R on September 22, 2007. Today (the next day) Twitter4R released version 0.2.5 including message paging support.
The new
Added support in [r155].
Following email sent Sept 22 (for my reference):
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Hello Susan,
I’ve been working now on Twitter’s direct messages and I realized that Twitter4R library didn’t supported iteration through pages on
Was about to submit a patch and saw your ClassUtilMixin allowing the hash property setting – great for usage, but I have not seen anywhere in the docs where this is said to be possible.
Requiring a yml file to configure the client for every use case is silly. For simple scripts, the constructor should allow passing in the credentials. If this is currently possible, please doc this somewhere.
See changeset [r137] for fix and additions.
Amazingly the problem lies in Twitter4R’s overriding of Time#to_s. The good news is that Rails overrides Time#to_s to RFC822 which is what is needed (at least until Twitter changes their API, to use a more sensible format, which is already in the pipeline).
See Google Groups discussion here:
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter4r-users/browse_thread/thread/3d159ec5b85d225d