simple fortune / twitter bot

fortunebot.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# fortunebot.rb - simple fortune / twitter bot
# non-copyright (c) 2008 rodrigo franco <[email protected]> 
#
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require 'rubygems'
require 'twitter' # (twitter4r)
require 'time'

# Twitter bot configuration
TWITTER_USER  = 'foobar'
TWITTER_PASS  = 'foobar'
TWITTER       = Twitter::Client.new(:login => TWITTER_USER, :password => TWITTER_PASS)

module FortuneBot
  def self.generate_fortune
    return(`/opt/local/bin/fortune -s`)
  end

  def self.twitterable_fortune
    fortune = generate_fortune.gsub(/\t/,' ').gsub(/\n/,'').gsub(/--.*/,'').gsub("\"",'')
    fortune.size > 140 ? twitterable_fortune : "#{fortune}"
  end

  def self.exec
    status =TWITTER.status(:post, twitterable_fortune)
  end
end

FortuneBot.exec