[LRUG] Help with getting Rubygems/Ruby to work in Twitter datamining

[David Burrows]

Have a look at this section in the Rails tutorial  :
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book#sec:rubygems

If you have any issues with that process then post back to this thread with
the specific error messages etc.

Next stop after that is the Twitter gem http://rdoc.info/gems/twitter which
is pretty easy to use, just make sure you understand how Twitter allows
access via OAuth, they have some good docs at
http://dev.twitter.com/including an overview of OAuth
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/using-oauth

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On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Stuart Harrison <pezholio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dennis,
>
> Have you looked at ScraperWiki? (https://scraperwiki.com/), it allows you
> to write data mining (screenscraping) scripts in Ruby 'in the cloud' (as it
> were). Might be easier than getting Ruby set up on your local machine?
>
> Cheers
>
> Stuart
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Dennis Jameer Ali <ali.dennis at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm a masters student working on doing Twitter datamining to get
>> the feeds I need to analyze for my dissertation research. Have taught
>> myself Ruby/Rubygems but not going far on limited time. Think I have
>> managed to install Ruby and Rubygems on my pc but have challenges in
>> getting it to work. It could be something simple with pc setup, missing
>> files, script error or something else? Have spent a great deal of time
>> trying but have to reach out for someone to assist now.
>>
>> I work in London and live along the central line so happy to speak/meet
>> up with someone to work out the setup issues/method.
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
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