osem-fcy/app/models/twitter_wrapper.rb

class TwitterWrapper
  attr_accessor :client

  def initialize
    @client = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
      config.consumer_key        = ENV['OSEM_TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY']
      config.consumer_secret     = ENV['OSEM_TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET']
      config.access_token        = ENV['OSEM_TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN']
      config.access_token_secret = ENV['OSEM_TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET']
    end
  end

  ##
  # Fetches tweets from twitter api based on search_term and no_of_tweets
  #
  def search_tweets(no_of_tweets, search_term)
    @client.search(search_term, result_type: 'recent').take(no_of_tweets).collect
  rescue
    nil
  end
end