Twitter Beanstalk WebSocket Example

Quick experiment of going from twitter to the browser, with no polling.

It goes something like this:

Twitter Stream → Filter → Beanstalk → EventMachine → WebSocket → HTML5 Browser

Requirements

• Ruby
• Beanstalk
• gem install bundler

How To

1. bundle install (first time, to install the dependencies)
2. beanstalkd # start beanstalk
3. ruby twitterfeed.rb twitter_username twitter_password # start the filter
4. ruby socket.rb # on another shell

Then you can open client/index.html on a HTML5 WebSocket compatible browser (tested with Webkit nightly).

Read the code, and have fun! :)