I 'Tweet' this

Jeroen Bulters ma 16 aug 10

Although I have a deep-rooted and sincere hatred towards Facebook ‘like’ buttons, I do like “Tweet this” buttons. I just prefer twitter over facebook (at least untill farmville introduces twitter integration).

The guys at Intridea were thinking the same and created a gem to make it easy to incorporate Twitter’s own Tweet buttons into your Rails applications.

Setup is as straightforward as can be. Install the tweet-button gem, include the TweetButton module in your ApplicationHelper (or any other for finer-grained accessibility) and you’re all set.

The only thing left to do is put the button right where you want it.

<%= tweet_button :text => "Pure awesomeness!", :via => "bulters" -%>

Clicking the resulting button will open up a popup which will allow you to tweet the text, followed by the url of the page (which, in turn, will be shortened automatically by Twitter’s future t.co service) and the associated user.

Of course, it is possible to set some preferences globally. This is done by setting the default_tweet_button_options variable of the TweetButton module. For example:

TweetButton.default_tweet_button_options = {:via => "bulters" }  

Incorporating tweet button’s can’t get any easier than this.

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