Bot can now respond to favorite events.

I wrote this for myself, but I thought I would share!

lib/twitter_ebooks/bot.rb

@@ -257,11 +257,18 @@ module Ebooks
         log "DM from @#{ev.sender.screen_name}: #{ev.text}"
         fire(:message, ev)
 
-      elsif ev.respond_to?(:name) && ev.name == :follow
+      elsif ev.respond_to?(:name)
+        if ev.name == :follow
           return if ev.source.screen_name.downcase == @username.downcase
           log "Followed by #{ev.source.screen_name}"
           fire(:follow, ev.source)
 
+        elsif ev.name == :favorite || ev.name == :unfavorite
+          return if ev.source.screen_name.downcase == @username.downcase # Ignore our own favorites
+          log "@#{ev.source.screen_name} #{ev.name.to_s}d: #{ev.target_object.text}"
+          fire(ev.name, ev.source, ev.target_object)
+        end
+
       elsif ev.is_a? Twitter::Tweet
         return unless ev.text # If it's not a text-containing tweet, ignore it
         return if ev.user.screen_name.downcase == @username.downcase # Ignore our own tweets

skeleton/bots.rb

@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ class MyBot < Ebooks::Bot
     # Reply to a tweet in the bot's timeline
     # reply(tweet, "nice tweet")
   end
+
+  def on_favorite(user, tweet)
+    # Follow user who just favorited bot's tweet
+    # follow(user.screen_name)
+  end
 end
 
 # Make a MyBot and attach it to an account