Rubx, a.k.a. Ruby Boobie, is your personal Ruby interpreter in Twitter. Whether you are trying to test some Ruby code, play around with it or see what's capable of, Rubx is here for you.
Think of Rubx as IRB (the Interactive Ruby Shell), built-in on Twitter.
You send:
Rubx replies:
You say:
Ruby Boobie says:
You say:
Rubx says...
In order to interact with Rubx, anybody can send her some code as a reply:
@rubx puts "Hey there!"
Do I have to follow @rubx?
You don't have to, but we appreciate if you do.
Isn't this a honeypot for security issues?
It might be. We've tried our best to secure our bot as much as possible. If you find some flaw, please let us know, we might send you a Ruby book as appreciation.
Rubx takes a lot of time to reply!
Given that we play nicely with the Twitter API, we pull for incoming requests once every minute. Depending on the demand, we might ask Twitter to whitelist us for more and more requests. For now, it isn't needed.
Who made it?
David Moreno built most of the functionality. Raquel Hernández helped with this website layout and testing. Tom Hallaran also helped deep testing. Axiombox runs our service.