twitter.rb

require 'faraday'
require 'json'

url = "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?id=cheald"
response = Faraday.get url
if response.success?
  result = JSON.parse(response.body)
  puts "Tweets: %s\n" % result.map {|tweet| tweet["text"] }.join("\n")
else
  puts "An error occurred and we couldn't get your tweets"
end