This Volt powered app was created as part of a coding challenge for a job application to Hedgeye. The requirements were that there be 2 routes:
- Have the route / retrieve the Twitter data on the server side and then render
- Have the route /via_js retrieve the Twitter data with JavaScript and render it after the document loads
Because Volt runs Ruby code on both the server and client the implementation does not totally fall under these two options.
I created a Task that gets the tweets using the twitter gem. The client then calls that task (effectively using the server as a proxy between the client and Twitter API), then renders the document and displays the tweets when they arrive. There is absolutely no JavaScript used.
A spec that tests the TwitterTasks is in the folder /spec/app/main/tasks/
Run it with this system command
$ BROWSER=/Users/maxplomer/.phantomjs/1.9.8/darwin/bin/phantomjs bundle exec rspec