update readme; change default torrents path; add index page

shurikk · Jun 1, 2011 · 2c88f86 · 2c88f86
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diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 doc
 *.gem
-Gemfile.lock
-var
+#Gemfile.lock
+tmp
+config
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -6,12 +6,25 @@ Simple [BitTorrent](http://bittorrent.org/) tracker using [Sinatra](http://www.s
 Implemented: [BEP 3](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html), [BEP 23](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0023.html)
 
 
+Thoughts
+--------
+
+In general idea is to run multiple torrent trackers (for redundancy) + fancy
+command line torrent clients that know how to share .torrent files with each
+other as a bittorrent based storage that is somewhat similar to [amazon S3](https://s3.amazonaws.com/)
+and others.
+
+
 Installation
 ------------
-
-    $ git clone 
-    $ bundle install
-    $ rackup -p 8888
+
+running on localhost, port 8888, using rack
+
+    $ git clone git://github.com/shurikk/bttrack.git
+    $ cd bttrack ; bundle install
+    $ bundle exec rackup -p 8888
+
+or create a .torrent file and use http://btrack.heroku.com/announce as announce URL
 
 
 License

diff --git a/bttrack.rb b/bttrack.rb
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ def req
 end
 
 get '/' do
-
+  @version = `cat VERSION`
+  erb :index
 end
 
 get '/announce' do
@@ -49,3 +50,13 @@ def req
     req.info_hash.scrape).bencode
 end
 
+__END__
+@@ layout
+<html>
+  <body>
+   <%= yield %>
+  </body>
+</html>
+
+@@ index
+bttrack version <%= @version %>
diff --git a/lib/bttrack/config.rb b/lib/bttrack/config.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 
 # config defaults
+# create $BTTRACK_ROOT/config/config.rb to override defaults
+
 CONF = {
   :compact => true,
   :allow_ip_override => false,
@@ -9,5 +11,5 @@
   :default_peers => 50,
   :scrape_interval => 10,
   :max_peers => 200,
-  :db_dir => "#{File.dirname(File.expand_path(__FILE__))}/../../var/torrents"
+  :db_dir => "#{$BTTRACK_ROOT}/tmp/torrents"
 }