gistfile1.rb

class TweetSearch < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :status, :tweet_id, :user

  def self.query(search_item="pizza")
    starttime = Time.now
    result = Twitter.search(search_item, :count => 10, :result_type => "recent").results.first
    tweettime = ((Time.now - starttime) * 1000).to_i
    METRICS.timing('tweetsearch.query', tweettime)
    return result
  end

end