How can I print tweets on a real-time printer?

Question

Programming

I have a thermal printer here and I really want to connect a tweeter to it. Just for sport. :) But the problem is that I don't understand much about programming. Can anyone tell me the easiest way to print tweets in real time?

PS It's all this post's fault. http://habrahabr.ru/post/141308/

Answer 1

I don’t know ready-made solutions, if programming is interesting - I would do something like this ... We receive tweets using the twitter streaming api, accumulate the required amount (so as not to print 1 tweet per sheet), and then just print :-)
Ruby:

port = "LPT1:" # Windows printer port
port = "/dev/lpt" # Linux printer port
File.open(port, "wb") do |printer| 
   printer.write(our_tweets) 
   printer.flush 
end

Well, screw the gui with QtRuby so that it hangs in the tray and you can turn it on and off.