For Bemba.com we use the Twitter4R gem, which works like a charm.
sharing web pages with friends in one click on several social networks at once!
Except we had some problems when we used the & character in our messages. It turned out that URI.encode was used for encoding and the text message was chopped off at the & character.
The solution was to use CGI::escape for encoding in ../twitter/lib/twitter/ext/
stdlib.rb:
class Hash
# Returns string formatted for HTTP URL encoded name-value pairs.
def to_http_str
result = ''
return result if self.empty?
self.each do |key, val|
result << "#{key}=#{CGI::escape(val.to_s)}&"
end
result.chop
end
Now it is just a matter of submitting a patch for the gem, but although the specifications are all nicely written with RSpec, we’re not able to run the specs.
no such file to load -- ./../spec_helper (LoadError)
What are we doing wrong here….where is the spec helper?
