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I had to get into some ruby programming for my job and so I decided to refresh my memories a bit more. It became more or less a tradition of mine to write some network or internet code to get into a language and so here’s a first result.
It’s just a simple function for making a HTTP request on a given target. On success it returns an HTTP object, on error nil. It’s nothing fancy, but it should be reliable and maybe helps someone for his/her project…

For my new job I had to get into Drupal, it’s structure, features, so maybe there could be more Drupal stuff here, in the future…
For my first approach I created some tiny drupal twitter module that displays the timeline in a block element, called iTweet. You can choose whether to show the timeline of a specific user or (if none is given) to show the public timeline.
The module is nothing special and lacks of some features like caching. You should not implement the module into sites with heavy traffic, because every …