Tweetfetch

Tweetfetch is a tweet fetching application developed to learn working with third party APIs in Ruby on Rails.

Features

  • Enter desired handle and fetch its tweets
  • 200 most recent tweets fetched (API rate limit)
  • Endless scroll pagination

Technical notes

  • Backend written using Ruby on Rails
  • Styled usind Materialize CSS framework
  • Frontend interactions written in Javascript
  • Tweet fetching done using 'twitter' gem
  • Used Slim markup language
  • Used Figaro to set ENV variables