Tweet#profile_image_url_https returning nil

[pruett]

A tweet (returned from Twitter.search) shows the following:

#<Twitter::Tweet:0x007fd92aaa85b0 @attrs={:metadata=>{:result_type=>"recent", :iso_language_code=>"en"}, :created_at=>"Fri Jan 04 20:49:53 +0000 2013", :id=>287299837349728256, :id_str=>"287299837349728256", :text=>"Visit @JaguarUSA #FTYPE Community for news, photos &amp; #CaptureAJag! Win a drive with the all new #FTYPE. http://t.co/igB9MXXY via @jaguarusa", :source=>"<a href=\"http://twitter.com/tweetbutton\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tweet Button</a>", :truncated=>false, :in_reply_to_status_id=>nil, :in_reply_to_status_id_str=>nil, :in_reply_to_user_id=>nil, :in_reply_to_user_id_str=>nil, :in_reply_to_screen_name=>nil, :user=>{:id=>35961348, :id_str=>"35961348", :name=>"Evisu", :screen_name=>"EezyV", :location=>"", :description=>"|Activist|Thinker| Analyst @CarrotCreative|Fashion Aficionado| Loves Music and Television..... ", :url=>"http://www.everaldphillip.com", :entities=>{:url=>{:urls=>[{:url=>"http://www.everaldphillip.com", :expanded_url=>nil, :indices=>[0, 29]}]}, :description=>{:urls=>[]}}, :protected=>false, :followers_count=>403, :friends_count=>473, :listed_count=>15, :created_at=>"Tue Apr 28 02:40:51 +0000 2009", :favourites_count=>180, :utc_offset=>-18000, :time_zone=>"Eastern Time (US & Canada)", :geo_enabled=>true, :verified=>false, :statuses_count=>15502, :lang=>"en", :contributors_enabled=>false, :is_translator=>false, :profile_background_color=>"88CC44", :profile_background_image_url=>"http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/653323083/lc8slpo98etww2vy2gop.jpeg", :profile_background_image_url_https=>"https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/653323083/lc8slpo98etww2vy2gop.jpeg", :profile_background_tile=>false, :profile_image_url=>"http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/2403040988/v0j5mhqh7y19oxggsyul_normal.jpeg", :profile_image_url_https=>"https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/2403040988/v0j5mhqh7y19oxggsyul_normal.jpeg", :profile_link_color=>"FFA230", :profile_sidebar_border_color=>"EEEEEE", :profile_sidebar_fill_color=>"EFEFEF", :profile_text_color=>"333333", :profile_use_background_image=>true, :default_profile=>false, :default_profile_image=>false, :following=>nil, :follow_request_sent=>nil, :notifications=>nil}, :geo=>nil, :coordinates=>nil, :place=>nil, :contributors=>nil, :retweet_count=>0, :entities=>{:hashtags=>[{:text=>"FTYPE", :indices=>[17, 23]}, {:text=>"CaptureAJag", :indices=>[57, 69]}, {:text=>"FTYPE", :indices=>[100, 106]}], :urls=>[{:url=>"http://t.co/igB9MXXY", :expanded_url=>"http://ftypecommunity.com", :display_url=>"ftypecommunity.com", :indices=>[108, 128]}], :user_mentions=>[{:screen_name=>"JaguarUSA", :name=>"Jaguar USA", :id=>309066576, :id_str=>"309066576", :indices=>[6, 16]}, {:screen_name=>"JaguarUSA", :name=>"Jaguar USA", :id=>309066576, :id_str=>"309066576", :indices=>[133, 143]}]}, :favorited=>false, :retweeted=>false, :possibly_sensitive=>false}>

Even though it's showing an attribute for profile_image_url_https, when I call p Tweet#profile_image_url_https, for instance, it returns nil. This only seems to happen with certain attributes, while others like text work, for example.

Am I calling this particular attribute wrong? I tried calling #entities but it indicated that its protected.

[sferik]

The profile_image_url_https attribute actually exists on the User, not the Tweet itself. Not sure why this is defined as an attribute instead of a delegator. I'll make this change. Thanks for reporting the bug.

In the mean time, you should be able to call:

Twitter.search("query").results.map do |tweet|
  tweet.user.profile_image_url_https
end

[pruett]

perfect, thanks so much