The genius.codes proxy
This is a tiny web proxy server that activates Genius annotation on any web page*.
It's written as a demonstration and proof of concept, and is about as far from production-ready as a piece of software could be. But it does look a lot like the first version of the proxy that powers Genius annotations across the web.
This repository serves as the show notes for our presentation at Code
Genius, in which we live coded roughly what you see in
server.rb.
Video of the presentation
Installing and running it
- Clone the repo
- Run
bundle - Run
ruby server.rb -s
Using it
You can proxy any page by prefixing its URL with localhost:9000. For
instance, to see the annotations on the Tender Love Making blog, point your
browser to http://localhost:9000/tenderlovemaking.com.
Technologies
The proxy is written in Ruby; it uses Goliath, a non-blocking Ruby web server; em-synchrony, an extension to EventMachine that lets us write non-blocking code in a familiar linear style using Ruby fibers.
Motivation
Mostly to demonstrate that you don't need Node to write this kind of thing.
Caveats
* Any web page whose head tag starts with the exact string <head>
License
This software is released under the MIT license. See attached LICENSE for details.