QuickBase API Cookbook v3 - Recipe #88
Get messages from QuickBase to send to Twitter
twitter message
You want to enter messages in QuickBase and send them from there to Twitter.
require 'rubygems'
gem 'twitter4r', '>=0.3.0'
require 'twitter'

require 'QuickBaseClient'

print "Please enter your QuickBase username: "
quickbase_username = gets.chop
print "Please enter your QuickBase password: "
quickbase_password = gets.chop
qbc = QuickBase::Client.new(quickbase_username,quickbase_password)

dbid = qbc.findDBByName("Twitter messages (#{quickbase_username})" )
if dbid.nil?
    dbid = qbc.createDatabase("Twitter messages (#{quickbase_username})", "This is a list of messages from Twitter.")
    qbc.addField(dbid,"Twitter_Screen_Name", "text")
    qbc.addField(dbid,"Twitter_Message", "text")
else   
  
  messagesToMoveToTwitter = []
  qbc.iterateRecords(dbid,["Record ID#","Twitter_Screen_Name","Twitter_Message"]){|record|
    p record
    if record["Twitter_Screen_Name"].nil? or record["Twitter_Screen_Name"] == "" and record["Twitter_Message"] and record["Twitter_Message"] != ""       
      messagesToMoveToTwitter << record["Twitter_Message"]
      qbc.deleteRecord(dbid,record["Record ID#"])
    end  
  }
  
  if messagesToMoveToTwitter.length > 0
    print "Please enter your Twitter username: "
    twitter_username = gets.chop
    print "Please enter your Twitter password: "
    twitter_password = gets.chop
    twitter_client = Twitter::Client.new(:login => twitter_username, :password => twitter_password )
    
    messagesToMoveToTwitter.each {|message|
      Twitter::Status.create(:text => message,:client => twitter_client)
    }
    
  end
  
end
This solution depends on the twitter4r Ruby API for Twitter.
It looks for messages in QuickBase that have no 'sender', sends them to Twitter, then removes them from QuickBase.
The messages will just be updates to your Twitter status.
 
twitterFromQuickBase.rb
One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows Ruby wrapper for QuickBase HTTP API twitter4r
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Created on March 17, 2008 at 11:46 AM (PDT). Last updated by Quick Base on March 17, 2008 at 11:53 AM (PDT). Owned by Quick Base.
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