Twitter Gem for Ruby on Rails not working. What am I missing?
ruby, ruby-on-rails, twitter
Solution
Yes things kind of changed with later releases. So to access it in the app, make the variable a global variable to have full access. So try `$client =`
Now when you access it call `$client.user_timeline` etc.
Problem
I'm trying to get the Twitter gem version 5.1.1 to work in my application, but I'm having trouble with the configuration. I am running rails 4 and Ruby 2.0.0. In my Gemfile I have "gem 'twitter'" listed and have installed it via the bundler. As per the documentation, I created an initializer file in config/initializers/twitter_credentials.rb. That file looks like this (though I have the key's and secrets filled with my information from twitter): ``` require 'twitter' client = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config| config.consumer_key = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY" config.consumer_secret = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET" config.access_token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN" config.access_token_secret = "YOUR_ACCESS_SECRET" end ``` When I try to use the client in the rails console, this is the error message I receive: ``` 2.0.0p353 :001 > client.update("I'm tweeting with @gem!") NameError: undefined local variable or method `client' for main:Object from (irb):1 from /Users/user_name/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/railties-4.0.2/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:90:in `start' from /Users/user_name/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/railties-4.0.2/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:9:in `start' from /Users/user_name/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/railties-4.0.2/lib/rails/commands.rb:62:in `<top (required)>' from bin/rails:4:in `require' from bin/rails:4:in `<main>' ``` Any idea what the issue is?