tweet.rake

require 'jekyll'

LINK = "http://www.example.com"

desc 'Notify Twitter of a new post'
task :tweet do
  puts '* Pinging Twitter about the latest post'
  options = {}
  options = Jekyll.configuration(options)
  site = Jekyll::Site.new(options)
  site.read_posts('.')
  latest = site.posts.last
  link = LINK + latest.to_liquid['url']
  title = latest.to_liquid['title']
  system("/usr/bin/t update 'New Post: #{title.chomp} #{link.chomp}'")
end