optimistic_dev

The code behind @optimistic_dev.

Everything is awesome, let's tell people how awesome their github projects are!

Introduction

This twitter bot keeps track of links to github projects, and when a given project has been tweeted five times, tells everyone how awesome the project is.

Contributing

I'd love improvements to the code, here are the steps you need to go through to make it work.

1. Set up a Go development envrionment.

2. Fork this repo on github.

3. Download your copy of the code.

   go get github.com/YOUR_NAME/optimistic_dev
   

4. Create your own app on apps.twitter.com, make sure it has read-write permissions.

5. Create a file called .env in $GOPATH/src/github.com/YOUR_NAME/optimistic_dev/.env that contains the following content based on your app settings:

   TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=<...>
   TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=<...>
   TWITTER_ACCESS_KEY=<...>
   TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET=<...>
   

6. Build the app

   go build
   

7. Run it

   ./optimistic_dev
   

8. Make any code changes you'd like, and test that they work.

9. Commit your changes

10. Push them to your fork

11. Send me a pull request

License

optimistic_dev is licensed under the MIT license, see LICENSE.MIT for details.