ShowGap

Filling the gap between podcast hosts and their listeners.

I started this project a year ago as a replacement for Showbot. I ended up falling out of love with the idea of supporting it. I am not planning to continue development. The code is MIT licensed, have fun.

Woah, what's all this now?

ShowGap is a web application. Rails runs the server, which is just a JSON API. The client is entirely written with Backbone.

Features

• Customizable discussions (e.g. disable down voting, only allow link replies)
• Subdomains for each show
• Rich HTML5 Editor
• Multiple episodes per show with air date and time
• Multiple user roles (admin, host, and listener)
• Twitter authentication
• Backbone.js so it's super fast
• Rails jBuilder-based API
• Server provisioning script using Teleport
• Server deployment script using Mina

Technologies

• Backbone
• Rails
• CanCan
• Twitter Bootstrap
• Underscore
• Handlebars
• Sugar.js
• Kalendae
• jQuery Waypoints
• URI.js
• Backbone Relational
• Bootstrap Wysihtml5
• Backbone Forms

How do I Set it Up?

Install Ruby 2.0 using RVM and Pow.cx

1. bundle
2. rake db:create db:migrate db:seed
3. Make an App on Twitter
4. mv config/application.yml.example config/application.yml
5. Edit config/application.yml and add your Twitter consumer keys
6. cd ~/.pow
7. ln -s /path/to/showgap
8. Open http://showgap.dev

Note: Pow.cx is used to support the multiple subdomains used by ShowGap.

Becoming an Admin

1. Click Log in.
2. Log in with Twitter
3. rails c
4. User.last.update_attribute :role, 'admin'
5. Refresh and your account can now create new shows!

Deploying & Provisioning

Deploying and Provisioning of ShowGap servers is entirely automated.

Deploying

Simply run mina deploy.

Provisioning

Simply run teleport user@server.

License

MIT