=Twitter Scripts Some Ruby Twitter Scripts I find useful. Most of them use Grackle[http://github.com/hayesdavis/grackle]. Some of them use Redis[http://code.google.com/p/redis].

==Twitter Client Each of these scripts uses a Grackle::Client to talk to Twitter. If you want to control authentication or other settings for this client you can create a file called .twitter_client in the directory from which you run the scripts or in your user directory. This is a YAML file that include arguments that will be passed directly to the Grackle::Client constructor. Example file: auth: type: :basic username: USERNAME password: PASSWORD ssl: true

For more options, see the Grackle::Client[http://github.com/hayesdavis/grackle/blob/master/lib/grackle/client.rb] docs.

==Grackle Setup sudo gem install grackle

==Redis Setup ===Quick Start $ curl -O http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-1.02.tar.gz $ tar xzf redis-1.02.tar.gz $ cd redis-1.02 $ make $ ./redis-server

===Shut it down telnet 127.0.0.1 6379 type 'SHUTDOWN' and hit return