acani

Authentic, Common-Activities Networking Initiative

Meet people nearby with similar interests.

Possibility: Being loving, adventurous, and connected.

Outcome: People & organizations are connecting and playing & working together to have fun; grow & give back; and be happy, healthy, wealthy, loving, powerful, successful, abundant, and fulfilled!

Definite Chief Aim

On the 16th day of March, 2011, acani will be the world's first trillion-dollar company, with a net worth of $3,304,167,034,051.97. In return, it will give 100 times more value to billions of fellow men, women, children, and organizations by causing their optimal success & happiness every day in every way. It will attract synergistic, effective teams of amazing individuals and lead them in developing extraordinary, word-class, Internet/mobile/desktop/server/computer applications that will revolutionize the productivity and effectiveness of the world by causing people to work together to be healthy, wealthy, loving, and abundant.

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Milestones

Friday, December 31, 2010 — 11:59pm EST

• iPhone app, version 1.0.0, approved & available in the App Store
• Web app, version 1.0.0, launched at http://www.acani.com

Friday, December 17, 2010 — 5:00pm EST

• iPhone app, version 1.0.0, complete and submitted to the App Store

Resources

MacBook, Terminal, TextMate, Firefox, FireBug, Google Chrome, Safari, Internet, iPhone, Pivotal Tracker, GitHub, Heroku, Joyent, UserVoice, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Ruby, Sinatra, MongoDB, Node.js, Redis, Facebook, Twitter, 10 hours/week, $10,000.

Platforms

• Internet
  • HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
  • Site: http://www.acani.com/
  • API: http://api.acani.com/
• Mobile
  • iPhone
  • Blackberry
  • Android
  • Microsoft
• Desktop
  • Chrome OS
  • Mac OS
  • Windows
  • Linux
• Server
  • Node.js & Redis on Joyent
  • Sinatra & MongoDB on Heroku

Inspirations

• Grindr
• Facebook & Three20
• Accidental Billionaires & The Social Network

Getting Started on Mac OS 10.6

Xcode

Download & Install

http://developer.apple.com/technologies/xcode.html

Git

Download & Install from Source on Mac OS 10.6

Run the following terminal commands:

# **C**hange **D**irectory to where you want to store Git's source files
cd ~/Sources/ # where I store source code that I don't work on

Reference: http://www.mattdipasquale.com/blog/2010/05/30/instructions-how-to-install-git-from-source-on-mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard-intel-x86-32-bit

Clone Repositories

Run the following terminal commands:

# **C**hange **D**irectory to where you want to store acani's source files
cd ~/Projects/ # where I store projects that I work on

# Clone the repository to your machine
git clone git@github.com:acani/acani.git

# Initialize & update the submodules according to .gitmodules
git submodule init
git submodule update

Required Reading

• Submodules: http://book.git-scm.com/5_submodules.html
• Workflow: [link to git workflow]
• Great Book: http://book.git-scm.com/

CHECKPOINT: You can now open acani-iphone/Lovers/Lovers.xcodeproj in Xcode and build & run it with profile functionality (as long as you're connected to the Internet). We're now hosting the profile info, and pictures & thumbnails on Heroku, using Sinatra & MongoHQ. For example, go here http://acani.heroku.com/users/4c96ee4f1467281352000049/26312E44-7A20-5E47-8347-15C8B5B55A21/40.748470/-73.999815 to see a list of the 20 closest users to the coordinates at the end of the URI.

You can edit some fields of a user profile here: http://acani.heroku.com/4c96fa4714672817ae000073/edit where 4c96fa4714672817ae000073 is the uid

To unlock chat functionality, skip to "Node.js & Redis chat server" to install them locally. Everything in between is just to get Sinatra & MongoDB running locally, which you don't really need anymore now that it's running on Heroku.

Install Ruby & Gems with RVM

RVM: http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/basics/

RVM

bash < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head )

Ruby 1.9.1

rvm install 1.9.1; rvm 1.9.1
ruby -v; which ruby # check if it's working

Gems

rvm gemset create acani # create a gemset for acani
rvm --default ruby-1.9.1@acani # set your default ruby & gemset

# Quit & Relaunch Terminal
rvm list default; rvm gemset name # check what your default ruby is

gem install bundler
bundle install # installs the gems for this rails app, listed in Gemfile
bundle lock

Heroku

gem install heroku

MongoDB

Install

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Quickstart

# If installing or upgrading with homebrew, automatically load on login with:
launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.mongodb.mongod.plist
cp /usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/1.4.3-x86_64/org.mongodb.mongod.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.mongodb.mongod.plist

Seed

1. Start MongoDB with the command mongod if not yet running.

2. Run ruby acani-sinatra/seed/profiles.rb to populate the MongoDB database.

3. In Constatns.h in acani-iphone/Lovers/Lovers.xcodeproj, redefine kHost to the local URI in the comment.

4. Run ruby acani.rb from acani-sinatra.

CHECKPOINT: When you build the iPhone app now, it will use the profile info, and pictures & thumbnails from your local machine. Congrats! You're a true developer now.

Node.js & Redis chat server

Follow the README files below to install Node.js & Redis:

• http://github.com/ry/node

• http://github.com/antirez/redis

  Open Terminal to start the Node.js server:

  cd acani-node node acani-node-server.js

  Open a 2nd Terminal tab/window to start the Redis server:

  /path/to/redis/src/redis-server redis.conf

  (Optional) Open a 3rd Terminal tab/window to start a Redis client.

  /path/to/redis/src/redis-cli # allows you to query the Redis server

  For example:

  smembers online # show members in set 'online' srem online bob # remove 'bob' from set 'online'

  open index.html # in a browser that supports WebSockets & has a JS Console

CHECKPOINT: Now, you should be able to send & receive messages and log in & out.

Public API

Right now, we have an internal API that the iPhone code uses. Eventually, we'll have a public API for developers of other software to access the acani servers. The public API will work like the Facebook Graph API: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api

Mailing List

To join the list simply send an email to acani@librelist.com. This will subscribe you and send you information about your subscription, including unsubscribe information.

The archive can be found at http://librelist.com/browser/.

Team

• Matt Di Pasquale - Project Manager & Software Engineer
• Aaron
• John Ferro
• Abhinav Sharma - iPhone Software Engineer
• Joey D. - Advisor
• Josh Kronz - Graphic Designer (potential)
• Paulie D. - Investor (potential)
• More developers & designers...

Meta

• Code: git clone git@github.com:acani/acani.git
• Home: http://github.com/acani/acani
• Docs: http://acani.github.com/acani/
• Flow: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/87161
• Bugs: http://github.com/acani/acani/issues
• List: acani@librelist.com
• Archive: http://librelist.com/browser/acani/
• Chat: irc://irc.freenode.net/acani

This project uses Semantic Versioning.