Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 1
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...
View ArticleGetting Connected to Twitter with OAuth
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. Download 67 MB Download (iphone & ipod)...
View ArticleCreating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 2
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. I...
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Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 3
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...
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Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 4
We’re almost done! The remaining screencasts are already recorded, but not edited yet. To speed things up, I split it up into 3 or 4 screencasts. This one shows how to make the site look and feel like...
View ArticleCreating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 5
The saga continues. Here we learn how to add the friends list to your application and we use AJAX to add/remove friends. Download 251.4 Download (iphone & ipod) 111.4
View ArticleMonitor Twitter with Ruby and Growl
As I run the final stretch to see if I can get a RubyConf ticket, I decided to create a little tool to help me out. If you visit http://search.twitter.com, you will see that they have a search page...
View ArticleCreating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 6
In this concluding episode, we go over how to add search functionality to our Flitter application, and add a ‘follow / unfollow’ button which uses AJAX. This is the last of the 6-part series on how to...
View ArticleOAuth with the Twitter Gem
Twitter just turned off Basic Auth and is forcing application developer to use OAuth. Here is a demonstration of how to add Twitter OAuth to your Ruby on Rails Application. Download 90.9 MB Download...
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