Hugo Estrada's House of Wonder

Inspired by Darwin twittering, I got an account for Francisco I. Madero, initial leader of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Write now I have him twittering random quotes from his book, The Presidential Succession. This is topical since the 100 anniversary of the Mexican Revolution is about to hit the next year. I got to make some changes to the script so that it will hash out certain key terms. Madero is exclusively twittering in Spanish :P

The code is below:

require 'grackle'

file = IO.readlines("maderobook.txt")

randomLine = rand(file.length) + 1

text = file[randomLine]

tweets = Array.new
words = text.split

while (words.length > 0)
message = ""
while (message.length < 100 && words.length > 0)
message += " " + words.shift
end
tweets.push(message)
end

tweets.each{ |m|
client = Grackle::Client.new(:auth=>{:type=>:basic,:username=>'name',:password=>'xxx'})

result = client.statuses.update.json! :status=>m
}