HTTParty test: posting twitter via Rails console

useraxis@useraxis.org [~/rails/masquerade]# ruby script/console
Loading development environment (Rails 2.1.0)
>>           class Twitter
>>             include HTTParty
>>             base_uri 'twitter.com'
>>
?>
?>             def initialize(u, p)
>>               @auth = {:username => u, :password => p}
>>             end
>>
?>             def post(text)
>>               options = { :query => {:status => text}, :basic_auth => @auth }
>>
?>               self.class.post('/statuses/update.json', options)
>>             end
>>           end
=> nil
>>
?>   Twitter.new('lgswitter', 'xxxxx').post("Here another  HTTParty test:  I'm posting via Rails script/console ")
=> {"user"=>{"name"=>"Luca G.Soave", "url"=>nil, "id"=>14926752, "description"=>"", "protected"=>false, "screen_name"=>"lgswitter", "followers_count"=>2, "profile_image_url"=>"http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/54745327/luca_normal.jpg", "location"=>"Italy "}, "favorited"=>false, "truncated"=>false, "text"=>"Here another  HTTParty test:  I'm posting via Rails script/console", "id"=>920995162, "in_reply_to_user_id"=>nil, "in_reply_to_status_id"=>nil, "source"=>"web", "created_at"=>"Sun Sep 14 12:43:25 +0000 2008"}
>>