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Using Twitter4R on Mac OS X

Published by Mikael Hallendal on May 31, 2008 12:02 am under Programming, Tips

Was playing around a bit with the Twitter4R library the other day and realized that in order to make it to work on Mac OS X (Leopard) you need to also require ‘time’. Or you will get an error similar to lib/twitter/model.rb:268:in `init’: undefined method `parse’ for Time:Class (NoMethodError).

A small snippet to display my public tweets:

require 'rubygems'
gem('twitter4r', '0.3.0')
require 'twitter'

# Required on Mac OS X Leopard
require 'time'

twitter = Twitter::Client.new

hallski_timeline = twitter.timeline_for(:user, :id => 'hallski')

hallski_timeline.each do |status|
  puts status.text
end

7 Comments so far

i5m on July 20th, 2008

Thanks for that. Didn’t have a clue why I couldn’t get it to work.
S. Potter on July 23rd, 2008

You can now download the development release of Twitter4R (v0.3.1) from the GitHub gem repository. It contains newer features than those available at the time 0.3.0 was released.

See the following GitHub wiki page for more information:
http://github.com/mbbx6spp/twitter4r/wikis/howto-install-github-development-releases

HTH
Susan
Mikael Hallendal on August 6th, 2008

@S. Potter. Thanks a lot for notifying!
Bensoussan Michael on December 17th, 2008

Thanks fo the tip !
Martin Cleaver on February 28th, 2009

Thanks Mikael,

This is still an issue on twitter4r v3.0.

You, and Google, saved me.
M.
Ryan on March 17th, 2009

Thanks for posting. I was stuck on that one for a while.
Dan Saksa on February 10th, 2010

Thanks for this. My school cancellation “tweet-er” was incomplete without this piece of info. Now, 16 people will be saved the inconvenience of getting out of bed and checking the website.