pvieytes

import Tweet
import simplejson
import urllib2


def read_tweets(user, num_tweets):
    tweets = []
    url = "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?\
           screen_name=%s&count=%s&include_rts=true" % (user, num_tweets)
    file = urllib2.urlopen(url)        

fnichol

Why?

There is a long standing issue in Ruby where the net/http library by default does not check the validity of an SSL certificate during a TLS handshake. Rather than deal with the underlying problem (a missing certificate authority, a self-signed certificate, etc.) one tends to see bad hacks everywhere. This can lead to problems down the road.

From what I can see the OpenSSL library that Rails Installer delivers has no certificate authorities defined. So, let's go fetch some from the curl website. And since this is for ruby, why don't we download and install the file with a ruby script?

Installation

The Ruby Way! (Fun)

torsten

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# A quick and dirty implementation of an HTTP proxy server in Ruby
# because I did not want to install anything.
# 
# Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Torsten Becker <torsten.becker@gmail.com>
# 
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,