app/models/agents/twitter_user_agent.rb

@@ -6,27 +6,19 @@ module Agents

                 
              

                     description <<-MD
              

                       The Twitter User Agent either follows the timeline of a specific Twitter user or follow your own home timeline including both your tweets and tweets from people whom you are following.
              

                -
              

                       #{twitter_dependencies_missing if dependencies_missing?}
              

                -
              

                       To be able to use this Agent you need to authenticate with Twitter in the [Services](/services) section first.
              

                -
              

                       For the first option, you must provide the `username` of the Twitter user to monitor.
              

                -
              

                       For the second option, you must set `choose_home_time_line` to `true`. 
              

                -
              

                       Set `include_retweets` to `false` to not include retweets (default: `true`)
              

                       
              

                       Set `exclude_replies` to `true` to exclude replies (default: `false`)
              

                -
              

                       Set `expected_update_period_in_days` to the maximum amount of time that you'd expect to pass between Events being created by this Agent.
              

                -
              

                       Set `starting_at` to the date/time (eg. `Mon Jun 02 00:38:12 +0000 2014`) you want to start receiving tweets from (default: agent's `created_at`)
              

                     MD
              

                 
              

                     event_description <<-MD
              

                       Events are the raw JSON provided by the [Twitter API](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/user_timeline). Should look something like:
              

                -
              

                           {
              

                              ... every Tweet field, including ...
              

                             "text": "something",
              
@@ -67,7 +59,10 @@ module Agents

                     def validate_options
              

                       errors.add(:base, "expected_update_period_in_days is required") unless options['expected_update_period_in_days'].present?
              

                       
              

                -      errors.add(:base, "username is required") unless options['choose_home_time_line'].include?('true')
              

                +      #errors.add(:base, "username is required") unless options['choose_home_time_line'] == 'true'
              

                +      if options['choose_home_time_line'].present? && %[false].include?(options['choose_home_time_line'].to_s)
              

                +        errors.add(:base, "username is required")
              

                +      end
              

                 
              

                       if options[:include_retweets].present? && !%w[true false].include?(options[:include_retweets])
              

                         errors.add(:base, "include_retweets must be a boolean value string (true/false)")
              

spec/models/agents/twitter_user_agent_spec.rb

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ describe Agents::TwitterUserAgent do

                       
              

                       opts = @opts.merge({:choose_home_time_line => "false" })
              

                 
              

                -      checker = Agents::TwitterUserAgent.new(:name => "tectonic", :options => @opts1)
              

                +      checker = Agents::TwitterUserAgent.new(:name => "tectonic", :options => opts)
              

                       checker.service = services(:generic)
              

                       checker.user = users(:bob)
              

                       checker.save!