fBomb

See where in the world the fBomb was dropped

Installation

Fairly basic to set up your own instance of this application.

To set up your own version of this app, all you have to do is clone this repo and install the dependencies:

(debug step: comment out newrelic if you aren't going to be monitoring)

   $ git clone https://github.com/mgingras/fBomb.git
   $ npm install

###Configuration ####Heroku toolbelt - Foreman

I use foreman to populate the environment variables with the API keys, feel free to use whatever works for you to get them in your environment.

To do so, using foreman configure the ".env" file in the project's root directory with credentials from https://dev.twitter.com and Google's API.

consumer_key=[Consumer key]
consumer_secret=[Consumer Secret]
oauth_token=[Access token]
oauth_token_secret=[Access token secret]
gmaps=[Google Maps API key]
app_name=[Application Name]
track=[Comma separated terms to track]

You can then run the app using the following:

$ foreman start

Then just browse to localhost:5000 and you should see some fBombs drop!

####Hard code API keys You can hard code the values described in the above method wherever they apply (see below) In any of the below files, replace the entire "process.env.[key]" with the relevant data

coffeeApp.coffee

Twitter = new twit {
  consumer_key: [Consumer key]
  consumer_secret: [Consumer Secret]
  access_token: [Access token]
  access_token_secret: [Access token secret]
}

...

stream = Twitter.stream 'statuses/filter', {track:process.env.track}

routes/index.js

  res.render('index', { title: 'FBomb', api: process.env.gmaps });

then run the app using:

$ coffee coffeeApp.coffee

and browse to localhost:3000

Configuration

You can now configure what word to follow by modifying the .env file if you went that route or hard coding them into the following line in coffeeApp.coffee, so that 'track:process.env.track' is replaced by a comma separated string of whatever words you want to track.

stream = Twitter.stream 'statuses/filter', {track:process.env.track}

Markers are customizable by replacing the fbomb.gif and signPost.png located in ./public/img/ .

Let me know if you have any questions!

martin@mgingras.com