Regarding the username and password hardcoding in the script. It isn’t that hard to use OAuth so that you don’t have to leave your Twitter username and password in a script or in environmental variables.

I go over tweeting in Ruby with OAuth in my blog article: http://joshuaborn.info/blog/dc7a

text = ARGV[0] && ARGV[0].chomp

if text.nil? or text.length <= 0
puts “Please enter text to post.”
text = ARGF.readline
end

thanks!

Line 4 chomp gives error if no arg passed, so won’t reach later line checking text length <=0 .

I’ll probably put in a read there to take input if no arg provided.

Nice script.
rahul