gistfile1.txt

require 'rubygems'
require 'socket'
gem 'twitter' # necessary if you have twitter4r installed as well as twitter
require 'twitter'

IP = "192.168.2.27"
PORT = 2000


tweets = []

socket = TCPSocket.open(IP, PORT)

search_type = "geo"

feed = Thread.new do
  while true

    if (search_type == "geo")
      Twitter::Search.new.geocode("37.546", "-77.443", "1mi").each do |tweet|
        puts "got search results"
      #<#Hashie::Mash created_at="Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:16:10 +0000" from_user="ExRea" from_user_id=2071244 geo=nil id=22749454497 iso_language_code="en" metadata=<#Hashie::Mash result_type="recent"> profile_image_url="http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1095188580/1fd47096-3acd-4d3f-a671-b4d9d48dcceb_normal.png" source="&lt;a href=&quot;http://83degrees.com/to/powertwitter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Power Twitter&lt;/a&gt;" text="RT @betseyross RT @RoseD1st IS JOHN CUSACK'S TWEET, HATE SPEECH? Why is he allowed to spew this kinda hate speech w/out any repercussions???" to_user_id=nil>
        if (tweets.select {|t| t.text  == tweet.text}.empty?)
          puts "storing tweet #{tweet.text}"
          if (tweets.size < 50) 
            tweets.push(tweet)
          end
        end
      end
      search_type = "search"
    else
      Twitter::Search.new("vcu rva").each do |tweet|
        puts "got search results"
        if (tweets.select {|t| t.text  == tweet.text}.empty?)
          puts "storing tweet #{tweet.text}"
          if (tweets.size < 50) 
            tweets.push(tweet)
          end
        end
      end
      search_type = "geo"
    end

    puts "feed thread"
    sleep(10)
  end

end



publisher = Thread.new do
  while true
    unless (tweets.empty?)
      index = rand(tweets.size)
      tweet = tweets.delete_at(index)
      puts("#{tweet.from_user},#{tweet.profile_image_url},#{tweet.text}")
      socket.print("#{tweet.from_user},#{tweet.profile_image_url},#{tweet.text}")
      sleep(10)
    end
  end
end


feed.join
publisher.join

#socket.close()
#
while (true)
  sleep(1)
  # ?
end