We remove duplicates from our Twitter search results by remembering the ID of the last result and only fetching tweets that have occurred since then.
In case you are following the 'Creating a Twitter Clone with Rails' screencast series, the latest release is now out. Continue learning how to create a 'Flitter' application using Rails at
In this screencast, we continue our challenge of creating a Twitter clone called 'Flitter' using Ruby on Rails. We learn how to use jQuery to create a countdown for the text area box. We also set up adding and removing friends via the interface. Oh... you hear my baby cry and my sister-in-law call. Fun stuff :D
The second part in which Eric Berry duplicates twitter. "Now that we have a backbone to our 'Flitter' application, we learn how to create the front end and tie it all together. In this screencast, I cover a lot of CSS and getting your site to look good."
In this screencast, I show you how to use the Twitter gem to connect to Twitter, and we clarify some of the difficulties that comes with learning OAuth.
In this series, I attempt to recreate a twitter style application called 'Flitter'. In this installment, I show you how to create an authenticated system easily using existing tools. I also show how to generate test data to simulate an active application. Finally, you will learn how to set up self-referencial associations.
This screencast walks you through the creation and deployment of a Rails app that integrates with the Shopify API. Thanks to the help of the shopify_app plugin and the Heroku deployment platform, the entire process takes about 8 minutes (including explanations along the way).
A screencast recording of Michael Bleigh's 2009 RailsConf talk about building Twitter applications with Rails. Walks through the basics of the Twitter API and follows up with a complete Twitter application getting built live.