Octochat

Trey Tomlinson
Jeff Gu
Kit Pearson

Octochat is an asynchronous chat application centered around the Github social ecosystem. Using a microservice architecture based mainly on Ruby on Rails combined with a Node.js websocket publication server and redis pub/sub feature for good mesure.

This repo is the Node.js component. Follow this link to the necessary companion Rails app

Local Dev Installation

• clone each repo into separate directories

• Ensure you have a redis server running locally

• inside the Rails app directory:

  • bundle && rake db:setup
  • Include an environment variable SOCKET_URL set to the local url
  • Run your rails server on any open port besides 3000 rails s -p 8000

• Inside the Node app directory:

  • npm install
  • npm install nodemon
  • Start the node app npm start