Comments on: Keeping iChat and Adium status in sync with Twitter

By: Neelix

Neelix — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:16:58 +0000

Thanks a lot, Kegan! :)

By: Kegan

Kegan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:29:59 +0000

Okay, so you're going to insert this line of code:

message = message[0,message.length-10]

after this line in the program:

exit if ! message

It's a pretty remedial fix, given that I don't know Ruby. I'm sure there's a more sensible fix.

By: Neelix

Neelix — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:56:13 +0000

Hi Kegan,

I've the same problem. Can you post your fix please? :) Thanks!

By: Kegan

Kegan — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:26:11 +0000

Nevermind, fixed it myself by parsing it out. Nothing like a crash course in Ruby!

By: Kegan

Kegan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:28:36 +0000

Sorry, I meant /content, except with brackets around it. Doesn't display correctly in this comment system.

I.E. "just got home from school./content"

By: Kegan

Kegan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:26:43 +0000

Script works wonderfully except for a stray "" on the end of each tweet.

I.E. "just got home from school."

Any idea on how to correct this? Using Adium 1.4b9, OSX 10.6.1.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:04:01 +0000

There's no error checking in the script (mostly because I'm a bit lazy sometimes), so unfortunately it doesn't give very helpful feedback if there's a problem – that error suggests to me that either it has an invalid twitter name, or a network problem – In this case, it's trying to get 'text' (the content) from an element in the Twitter timeline RSS, but it couldn't find that element (which is why it's "nil:NilClass"). Make sure you're using the right twitter name and that your network connection's solid.

By: Marn

Marn — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:32:07 +0000

I get the following error when I try to run the script: /Users/marn/Library/Scripts/sync-status-with-twitter.rb:39: undefined method `text' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) Any ideas?

By: Bart

Bart — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:38:04 +0000

Thanks! It still works flawlessly!

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:43:18 +0000

You open Terminal again, type crontab -e to edit the crontab, delete the line you entered with this tip (you can press 'dd' to delete the current line, for example), then save and quit ('zz').

By: Bart

Bart — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:26:36 +0000

so i mean, how do you stop the crontab-thingie? Thanks!

By: Bart

Bart — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:25:17 +0000

Thanks, works perfect! And what’s the procedure to stop the syncing? Just in case…

By: Bed

Bed — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:49:54 +0000

Of course! There may be a more ruby-elegant way to do it, this was my first experience with it.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:47:10 +0000

Great idea, Bed; I might integrate your changes, if you’re okay with that!

By: Bed

Bed — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:43:05 +0000

Thanks for the script – very useful! FYI I’ve done a small mod to ignore @reply tweets, see http://abednarz.net/wp/twitter-adium-status-syncing-ignoring-replies/.