search in twitter json records

find_tweets.rb

#! /usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'json'

@user, @q = ARGV[0], ARGV[1]
puts "searching '#{@user}' for '#{@q}'"

def tweets
  result = []
  (1..50).to_a.each do |page|
    begin
      data = File.open("#{@user}.#{page}.json").read
      result += JSON.parse(data)
    rescue => e
      # puts e.message
    end
  end
  result.map { |tweet| tweet['id'].to_s + ': ' + tweet['text'] }
end

puts tweets.grep(/#{@q}/i).join("\n")