My really hacky livetweeting script. You pass in the ID of the tweet to continue the thread from.

thread.rb

require "yaml"
require "twitter"

config = YAML.load_file(File.expand_path("~/.trc")).dig("profiles", "qyliss").each_value.first

last_status = ARGV.fetch(0)

twitter = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |t|
  t.consumer_key = config.fetch("consumer_key")
  t.consumer_secret = config.fetch("consumer_secret")
  t.access_token = config.fetch("token")
  t.access_token_secret = config.fetch("secret")
end

loop do
  file = Tempfile.new("tweet")
  file.write(" #BathRuby")
  file.close
  system ENV.fetch("EDITOR"), file.path
  text = File.read(file.path)
  file.unlink
  break unless text[/\S/]
  begin
    last_status = twitter.update(text, in_reply_to_status_id: last_status).tap { |tweet|
      puts tweet.text
      puts tweet.id
    }.id
  rescue
    retry
  end
end