A small bot to show the messages on my party

twitter_festa.rb

require "net/http"
require "uri"
require "json"

def send_notify(cur_json)
    cur_json["results"].each do |tweet|
        puts tweet['text']
    `notify-send -t 7000 '#{tweet['text']}'`
    sleep 7
  end
end

def log_sleep
    d = Time.new
  puts "Sleeping 10m - next #{d.hour}:#{ d.min + 10}"
  sleep 600
end

HOST = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%40bltavares%20%23festa&result_type=recent&count=5&show_user=true"
#HOST = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=to%3Abltavares%20viado&result_type=recent&count=5&show_user=true"


request = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(HOST))

ol_json = JSON.parse(request.body)
send_notify(ol_json)
log_sleep

while true
  puts "Getting more"
  request = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(HOST))
  cur_json = JSON.parse(request.body)
  send_notify(cur_json) if cur_json["max_id"] != ol_json["max_id"]
  log_sleep  
end