About This Project

This project uses the Twitter and Flickr APIs to display photos from each of these services which are marked with the #DCtech hashtag. Each of these searches is sorted. In the case of Twitter, tweets are sorted according to how many times they have been retweeted. Flickr images are sorted by number of favorites.

Getting Started

To use this project, you will need Ruby and bundler installed in your working directory.

Then, follow these steps:

1. Clone this repository into a directory of your choice.
2. cd into the directory and run bundle install
3. Once installation is complete, enter rerun app.rb to start the server
4. Navigate in your browser to http://localhost:4567/twitter to view the #DCtech Twitter timeline
5. Visit http://localhost:4567/flickr to view the #DCtech Flickr timeline