A simple script that grabs some health related tweets and stores them in mongodb

mongo_tweet_health_spike.rb

require 'mongo'

require 'tweetstream'

db = Mongo::Connection.new("dbh13.mongolab.com", "27137").db("ch-diabetes-demo")
auth = db.authenticate("surfandcode", "irNwHfB3udTEpk9z")

collection = db.collection("diabetic_tweets")

stream = TweetStream::Client.new("commithealth", "SDSF202e")
stream.track("diabetes", "diabetic", "blood glucose", "endocrinologist", "#RunKeeper", "#FitnessAlerts") do |tweet|
  puts 'inserting tweet into db'
  collection.insert(tweet)
end