Hey! Tweet Stream

• Introduction
• Setup
• Running
• Screenshot

Introduction

This is a hastily written application to power a live tweet stream used during our Hey! events.

It uses Pusher to stream tweets collected by a broker to a simple web client.

Setup

To get things running you'll need to bundle your environment and define some env vars.

First bundle (the application currently uses Ruby 2.2.2):

bundle install

Then set your Pusher env vars:

PUSHER_URL=
PUSHER_PUBLIC_KEY=

As well as your Twitter credentials:

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=

Finally you'll want to set the query to the hashtag you want to follow:

TWITTER_QUERY=#heyldf

Running

To run the application, use Foreman:

bundle exec foreman start

This will start the broker used to stream tweets to the client as well as the Sinatra application.

Screenshot