jm3/realtalk

realtime tweet streaming in the browser using server-sent events. #realtalk

Realtalk by @jm3

Realtime tweet streaming to the browser with Server-Sent Events & Redis.

Requirements:

• Redis 2.0+
• OAuth keys + secrets from Twitter (create here)

Usage:

# install required gems
bundle

# add your twitter app keys and redis URL to credentials.sh
source credentials.sh

# start collecting tweets and streaming them to browser clients
bundle exec foreman start

# if using heroku, increase the number of workers to 1:
heroku scale web=1 tweet_harvester+1

Supporting cast:

• Pub/Sub by Redis
• Asynchronous shenanigans by Cramp
• Server-Sent Events by WebSockets
• Javascript deception by Coffeescript
• Dep management by The Bundler
• Process management by Foreman
• HTML element grid by Bootstrap
• Templating by Haml
• Free cloud hosting by Heroku