Code Happening 2012

This is a visual and textual random generator based on a Twitter scrapper, made as a desperate attempt to be part of the Code Happening 2012 organized by scvsoft

Required software (and hardware)

1. RVM
2. MongoDB
3. A decent browser, webkit preferably
4. ...lots of memory :-)

How to run

1. Clone
2. cd to the app's directory with the console to create the gemset
3. bundle install
4. edit the config/config.yml accordingly (you may use my twitter keys if you want)
5. Run the web app's server with thin start (for production settings fill config/thin.yml with the appropriate values for your production environment and run thin start -C config/thin.yml)
6. Open the app on http://localhost:3000 (the MongoDB daemon should be already running)

First steps

1. You will be prompted to load some data the first time by clicking a link
2. Then the fun begins
3. you may wipe the stored data by going to http://localhost:3000/clean
4. you also may load more data going to http://localhost:3000/update

Notes

A demo is available here

Thanks to bartaz for his library impress.js. It is great library which is a reflection of his author, he writes source code in way that helps you to learn a lot from him.

Also thanks to Kyle Banker, author of MongoDB in Action, who inspired this app.