Update script for your Twitter archive

readme.md

1. Get your Twitter archive;
2. Save this script as an executable in the root folder of your tweets archive;
3. Execute the script from anywhere (e.g. a cron job).

It auto-installs grailbird_updater in an isolated location. Thanks, @DeMarko!

update.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e

here="$(cd "${0%/*}" && pwd)"

export GEM_HOME="$here/.gem"
export GEM_PATH="$GEM_HOME"
export PATH="$GEM_HOME/bin:$PATH"

if ! [ -d "$GEM_HOME" ]; then
  ruby_version="$(ruby -e 'puts RUBY_VERSION')"
  if [ "$ruby_version" \< "1.9" ]; then
    echo "grailbird_updater needs Ruby 1.9 to run (was $ruby_version)" >&2
    exit 1
  fi
  gem install --no-rdoc --no-ri grailbird_updater
fi

exec grailbird_updater --verbose "$here"