OSX terminal script to post tweets to a WordPress blog

tw2wp-generic.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'rubygems'
# https://github.com/nu7hatch/gmail
require 'gmail'
# https://github.com/sferik/twitter
require 'twitter'

def mail_tweet(gmail, tid, subj)
    if !gmail.logged_in?
        p "Not logged in"
        return
    end
    msg = gmail.compose do
        to "Your Secret WordPress email address"
        subject subj # some subject is necessary, otherwise WP makes the post title a timestamp
        # body content assumes you use a category named Tweets for these
        # also, publicize is off since this might create loop of post -> tweet -> post -> tweet ad infinitum
        body "[tweet " + tid.to_s + "][category Tweets][comments off][publicize off]"
    end
    msg.deliver!
    puts "Delivered mail for tweet " + tid.to_s
end

gmail = Gmail.connect('Your Gmail address', 'Your Gmail password')

Twitter.configure do |config|
    config.consumer_key = 'Your Twitter consumer keu'
    config.consumer_secret = 'Your Twitter config secret'
    config.oauth_token = 'Your Twitter oauth token'
    config.oauth_token_secret = 'Your Twitter auth token secret'
end

tweets = Twitter.user_timeline("Your Twitter username")
faves =  Twitter.favorites("billsaysthis")

now = Time.new
start = Time.mktime(now.year, now.month, now.day, 0, 0, 0) # today midnight

# use reverse_each since Twitter returns in reverse chronological order
# And we want to post oldest first
tweets.reverse_each do | tw |
    if tw.created_at > start
        mail_tweet(gmail, tw.id, "A Tweet")
    end
end

faves.reverse_each do | tw |
    if tw.created_at > start
        mail_tweet(gmail, tw.id, "I Favorited a Tweet")
    end
end