/tweetflight-server

Twitter karaoke (server)

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Tweetflight

Tweetflight (server)

A memcache-enabled server to fetch and store tweets based on a collection of search terms.

☝️ Tweetflight includes a separate client that handles the front end: https://github.com/superhighfives/tweetflight-archive

Requirements

  • Ruby 1.9
  • Bundler (gem install bundler)
  • Memcached (brew install memcached)
  • A Twitter application (https://dev.twitter.com/)

Setup

Copy the sample foreman enviroment, customising the Twitter keys to catch the twitter app you created.

bundle
cp sample.env .env

Running

memcached &
bundle exec foreman start

Refreshing Tweets

Locally:

bundle exec foreman run ruby scripts/fetch.rb

or via the Heroku Scheduler add-on:

ruby scripts/fetch.rb

Deploying

You also need to make sure the correct Twitter app env values are set:

heroku config:add TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY blahblahblah
etc

License

This code (not including the lyrics) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License: you may use it, but you must give attribution.