Error with Ruby Twitter API

Question

I am getting an error with a Ruby script using the 'twitter' gem. The part of my script that is producing the error is

require 'twitter'
require 'net/http'
require 'json'

#### Get your twitter keys & secrets:
#### https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/tokens-devtwittercom
Twitter.configure do |config|
  config.consumer_key = 'xxxxxxx'
  config.consumer_secret = 'xxxxxxx'
  config.oauth_token = 'xxxxxx'
  config.oauth_token_secret = 'xxxxxxx'
end

The error says undefined method 'configure' for Twitter:Module (NoMethodError) However the 'twitter' and 'json' gems are both in my gemfile so I'm not sure why this method would be undefined.

what version of the gem are you using? Its stated in the documentation that configuration is done through the Twitter::REST::Client.new method — Zippie, Nov 27 '13 at 16:28
follow the documentation from here: https://github.com/sferik/twitter — Zippie, Nov 27 '13 at 16:36

score 17 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 27 '13 at 16:39

You are doing it the "old" way. Starting in Version 5, global configuration is not longer available. So, basically you need to pass the config parameters when you initialize a client.

For example:

client = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
  config.consumer_key        = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY"
  config.consumer_secret     = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"
  config.access_token        = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
  config.access_token_secret = "YOUR_ACCESS_SECRET"
end

And then just use that client to do queries, such as:

client.sample do |tweet|
  puts tweet.text
end

For more information just refer to Sferik's Twitter Gem

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Error with Ruby Twitter API

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