females.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'chatterbot/dsl'
require "twitter"
require 'faraday'
require 'typhoeus'
require 'typhoeus/adapters/faraday'

class FemalesBot
    def start
        blacklist "femalesbot"

        puts "Starting FemalesBot."

        begin
        loop do
          verbose
          puts "Searching for Hew-mon females..."
          search "females" do |tweet|
            reply "#{tweet_user(tweet)} those hew-mon females! http://giphy.com/gifs/star-trek-ds9-ferengi-YimpOFRiw0y40", tweet
          end
  
          update_config
          sleep 15
          end
          rescue Twitter::Error::TooManyRequests => error
            puts "Rate limit exceeded: #{error}, sleeping for #{error.rate_limit.reset_in}"
            sleep error.rate_limit.reset_in
            retry
          rescue
            puts "Something went wrong. Retrying. #{$!}"
            sleep 3
            retry
        end
    end

    def initialize
        # Load config
        @my_config = YAML.load_file('femalesbot.yml')


# I had to add this to resolve an "end of filei reached" problem
        middleware = Proc.new do |builder|
            builder.use Twitter::Request::MultipartWithFile
            builder.use Faraday::Request::Multipart
            builder.use Faraday::Request::UrlEncoded
            builder.use Twitter::Response::RaiseError, Twitter::Error::ClientError
            builder.use Twitter::Response::ParseJson
            builder.use Twitter::Response::RaiseError, Twitter::Error::ServerError
            builder.adapter :typhoeus
        end

        Twitter.middleware = Faraday::Builder.new(&middleware)

        # Configure twitter gem
        Twitter.configure do |config|
          config.consumer_key = @my_config[:consumer_key]
          config.consumer_secret = @my_config[:consumer_secret]
          config.oauth_token = @my_config[:token]
          config.oauth_token_secret = @my_config[:secret]
        end
    end

end

# Start main loop
bot = FemalesBot.new
bot.start