ruby omniauth twitter feed

gistfile1.rb

# omniauth + omniauth-twitter gems are required

class TwitterApi
  SITE = "http://api.twitter.com"
  API_URL = { :update_status => SITE + "/1.1/statuses/update.json"}

  def self.feed
    access_token = official_access_token
    response = access_token.request(:post,
                                    API_URL[:update_status],
                                    {"status" => "hello twitter"})
  end

  private

  def self.access_token(token, secret)
    consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new(
                  Rails.application.config.twitter_consumer_key,
                  Rails.application.config.twitter_consumer_secret,
                  { :site => SITE })
    return OAuth::AccessToken.new(consumer, token, secret)
  end

  def self.official_access_token
    access_token(Rails.application.config.twitter_access_token,
                 Rails.application.config.twitter_access_token_secret)
  end
end