FingerPop

Finger pop is a multiplayer online word guessing game which runs from browser. It currently has four implementaions with different architecture which are:

central server
distributed client without lock
distributed client with central lock
distributed client with ring lock

source code of each implementation can be checked out from the corresponding branch

Getting Started

Step 1. Install node.js

Step 2. Install ruby 2.2+

Step 3. Install ruby gems

under 'Server' folder of the source code, run the following command

bundle install

Step 4. Install node packages

under 'SocketManager' folder of the source code, run the following commands

npm install 
npm install peer
npm install socket.io

Step 5. Run server

rm /tmp/server
cd Server
ruby finger_pop.rb
cd ..
cd SocketManager
node app.js

Then the server will be running at localhost:3333