Get Twitter timeline in Ruby

example.rb

module Twitter
  def self.get_timeline(screen_name, query = {})
    response = HTTParty.get(
      "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=#{screen_name}",
      :query  => query,
      :format => :json
    )
    response.collect { |t| Hashie::Mash.new(t) }
  end
end