Barber Poll

Little app for quick surveys.

Setup

• Run bundle install
• rake db:setup

Run Barber Poll Server

rails s

Setting up redis

This should be simple. Once you've cloned the Barber Poll repo you simply open a new terminal window and run the redis-server command. And leave it running. The purpose of redis is to serve as a message bus between Barber Poll and Poll Pusher (the sister application, see below.)

redis-server

Setting up Poll Pusher

Unfortunately, both BarberPoll and its test suite require this node app to be running in order to work properly. This involves running a sister project named poll pusher. Poll Pusher is a node app designed to send updates to the result page dynamically through websockets. It is a really cool feature, but does complicate the environment. I will attempt to streamline this process in the future.

• Install Node:
  • brew install node
• git clone https://github.com/rondale-sc/poll_pusher.git
• npm install
• start node service with:
  • node index.js (from within the poll_pusher directory)

Setup (conclusion)

You should end up with three panes open (I prefer using tmux for this) with the following things:

• rails s
• redis-server
• node index.js (from within the Poll Pusher directory)