where form meets function

programming & design by paul fedory

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Introducing Trendy

January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Download the trendy gem, or visit the github for trendy.

I’ve made another gem! It’s called Trendy, and it is a simple wrapper for the Twitter Search API, but the only the part of it that concerns trending topics.

I’ve initially made it pretty simple, so I was able to learn a lot about jeweler and rspec – because I developed this gem using Behaviour/Test Driven Development – that is: I wrote failing tests first, then wrote the code, got it passing, then refactored the code.

Right now, Trendy only works with current topics; in the future, it will support past trending topics.

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