Ruby Script to get Twitter mentions

Here is a short Ruby script to check for mentions on Twitter, it uses the Twitter Gem.
Plan to use this to send messages to my Arduino, looking for a good Ruby Serial Port Gem now.
 
 
# Find your Twitter Mentions

require “rubygems”
require “twitter” #https://github.com/sferik/twitter for config details
require “pp”


prevID = 0
while true
latestMention = Twitter.mentions(:count => 1)[0]
if prevID != latestMention.id
msg = latestMention.user.screen_name + " " + latestMention.text
#puts msg.size
puts msg
prevID = latestMention.id
else
puts “No new updates”
end
sleep 60
end

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