UPDATE: This bug on drupal.org has been fixed. I'll keep this article published, but it will no longer be listed on the front page.
Drupal.org is now (as of Halloween 2013) on D7. This is good news with improved features, especially in the issue queues. However, something happened with the upgrade that broke my drush make. There's something different in the project information on drupal.org. (See: https://github.com/drush-ops/drush/issues/234 if you'd like more info.)
Following up on my last post about Writing a Simple Drupal Module, I thought I'd add some details about making it an actual module and making it a usable module. Where I left off last time, I actually had to go into the database and manually insert feeds to process.
A while back I had an idea to do a simple Drupal Module to take Environment Canada's weather RSS feed and automatically it to Twitter. I didn't see anything in the Drupal contributed modules, so I decided to write my own. (A proof of concept is running on the website: http://canweather.com.) The logic is quite simple:
- Read an item from the RSS feed.
- Record that I have read that item.
- Process the text to decide whether to post the item, and make any changes (eg. truncate long messages).
- Post the text to a Twitter account.
