live demo?

[aeosynth]

would be nice if this were up on eg heroku / nodejitsu

[rayshan]

Can this be re-opened? Live demo would greatly help new users.

[badosu]

@rayshan
There's a live demo at http://subway-chat.herokuapp.com/ but long outdated.

We would just have to redeploy it.

[rayshan]

Thanks, that'll be nice. Due to the limited dependencies, you could even set up hooks b/t Github / Travis CI / Heroku to have the app auto-redeploy upon release.

[badosu]

@rayshan
Would you be able to develop this?

[rayshan]

@badosu maybe, let me play w/ this given heroku's latest websocket changes and i'll report back

[badosu]

@rayshan Take a look at this: https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/8/7/heroku-button.

Do you think you can setup something like this for subway?

[rayshan]

Hi, I saw that too, pretty cool.

So I did play with this combo the other day. Websockets seem to work out of the box, which is nice. However the issue I had was that heroku dynos go to sleep if server isn't being pinged, and I guess websocket activity isn't counted. This causes settings (logins, etc.) to be erased. Doesn't Subway work w/ MongoDB? Where are the docs on how to set up db?

[badosu]

Hmmm.. so this is an issue for a long-lived app.

We don't want this demo to be an actual irc client for everyone to use, but a simple demo that should work for the user session and show the capabilities of subway.

So I guess it would be fine, at least for me.