CO2 Updates: http://github.com/Floppy/co2updates

Author: James Smith

Email : james@floppy.org.uk

Web : http://www.floppy.org.uk

REQUIREMENTS

Ruby 1.8 (not tested with 1.9 yet)

Gems:

• twitter
• twitter_oauth

Run bundle to install gems

USAGE

1. Copy config/config_example.yml to config/config.yml.

2. Fill in the consumer key and secret in the twitter config. You can get these by setting up an app at https://dev.twitter.com/apps/

3. Run bin/oauth.rb and follow the instructions.

4. From the oauth output, put the oauth token and secret into config.yml

5. Run bin/co2_updates.rb, and you're away!

DATA

The NOAA data source specified in the default config_example.yml is global mean CO2 concentration data from http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/#global

Application state is saved into data/state.yml. The latest year and month from the datafile is stored, and checked against the datafile on each run. If the latest date has not changed, updates are not sent out.