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Adapted from http://journal.mychores.co.uk/articles/2007/01/21/updating-twitter-from-ruby-rails

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  1. #!/usr/bin/env ruby
  2. require 'net/http'
  3. require 'uri'
  4. require ENV['TM_SUPPORT_PATH'] + "/lib/exit_codes.rb"
  5.  
  6. TW_USER = 'yourusername'
  7. TW_PASS = 'yourpassword'
  8. TW_URL  = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml'
  9. MAX_LEN = 140
  10.  
  11. message = STDIN.read.chomp
  12. if message.length > MAX_LEN
  13.   puts "Sorry, your message was #{message.length} characters long; the limit is #{MAX_LEN}."
  14.   TextMate.exit_show_tool_tip
  15. elsif message.empty?
  16.   puts "No message text selected!"
  17.   TextMate.exit_show_tool_tip
  18. end
  19.  
  20. begin
  21.   url = URI.parse(TW_URL)
  22.   req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
  23.   req.basic_auth TW_USER, TW_PASS
  24.   req.set_form_data({'status' => message})
  25.   begin
  26.     res = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port).start {|http| http.request(req) }
  27.     case res
  28.       when Net::HTTPSuccess, Net::HTTPRedirection
  29.         if res.body.empty?
  30.           puts "Twitter is not responding properly"
  31.           TextMate.exit_show_tool_tip
  32.         else
  33.           puts 'Twitter update succeeded'
  34.           TextMate.exit_show_tool_tip
  35.         end
  36.       else
  37.         puts 'Twitter update failed for an unknown reason'
  38.         # res.error!
  39.         TextMate.exit_show_tool_tip
  40.       end
  41.   rescue
  42.     puts $!
  43.     #puts "Twitter update failed - check username/password"
  44.     TextMate.exit_show_tool_tip
  45.   end
  46. rescue SocketError
  47.   puts "Twitter is currently unavailable"
  48.   TextMate.exit_show_tool_tip
  49. end

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