I am working on a little twitter project that uses twitter4r as the client API. As of recently twitter pulled some strings on their API and broke compatibility.


syris:~ victori$ ruby somebot.rb
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mbbx6spp-twitter4r-0.4.0/lib/twitter/client/base.rb:43:in `raise_rest_error': Not Found (Twitter::RESTError)
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mbbx6spp-twitter4r-0.4.0/lib/twitter/client/base.rb:48:in `handle_rest_response'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mbbx6spp-twitter4r-0.4.0/lib/twitter/client/base.rb:20:in `http_connect'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:543:in `start'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mbbx6spp-twitter4r-0.4.0/lib/twitter/client/base.rb:16:in `http_connect'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mbbx6spp-twitter4r-0.4.0/lib/twitter/client/user.rb:37:in `user'
from somebot.rb:5

Curse you twitter!

Luckly Ruby has the concept of monkey patching, here is the fix to get it all working correctly.


class Twitter::Client
@@USER_URIS = {
:info => '/users/show.json',
:friends => '/statuses/friends.json',
:followers => '/statuses/followers.json',
}
end

Shazzam… it works…