How to update status from app

[krzkrzkrz]

Is there a way to connect to twitter's api to upate a users status using this gem? Or should another approach be used for this?

In theory the app should communicate with http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/statuses/update to update a users status. Is this already supported or still has to be implemented?

[MSch]

Currently the best approach IMO would be to use the twitter gem: http://twitter.rubyforge.org/

You have access to all necessary tokens through the user model.

I might add a nicer interface for it.

[krzkrzkrz]

So just to be clear. Devise-twitter for twitter authentication and the twitter gem for twitter interaction right?

[MSch]

Yes.

I just looked at the documentation for the twitter gem

oauth = Twitter::OAuth.new(Devise::Twitter.consumer_key, Devise::Twitter.consumer_secret)
oauth.authorize_from_access(current_user.twitter_oauth_token, current_user.twitter_oauth_secret)
client = Twitter::Base.new(oauth)

should work.

[krzkrzkrz]

Lovely, thanks for the prompt reply :-)

[krzkrzkrz]

Additionally, will devise-twitter support communicating with the twitter api (i.e. updating twitter status, etc) or is this beyond the scope of this gem, since it is only meant for devise and twitter authentication?

[MSch]

I'll support integration with the twitter gem but no more, since that clearly falls in the domain of the twitter gem.

[krzkrzkrz]

tried installing the twitter gem with rails 3 and get an error on startup (issue: http://github.com/jnunemaker/twitter/issues#issue/67).

Instead, I am now using: twitter_oauth (http://github.com/moomerman/twitter_oauth) which works without any problems