Message Server

This is the repo for a publish-subscribe messaging system based on Faye.

Requirements

• Ruby 2.2.4
• Foreman gem
• Redis

Local setup

• Clone this repo
• cd into the project's directory and $ bundle install
• $ cp config/faye.sample.yml config/faye.yml
• edit config/faye.yml for local development
• $ cp Procfile.sample Procfile
• edit Procfile to reflect the correct command to launch redis in your environment
• $ foreman start
• Faye server will listen on http://localhost:9292/faye

Deployment

Pre-requisites

• Production server should meet the same requirements listed above (in the Requirements section)
• Ensure a user (other than root) exists in the production server (typically deploy) and that such user has:
  • sudo privileges
  • password-less sudo privileges
  • password-less login access (via ssh keys)
• $ cp config/faye.sample.yml config/faye.yml
• edit config/faye.yml to add a strong secret_token value, remember, this will be the authentication token a request should provide in order to correctly publish to the Faye message server

Deployment flow

• $ cp config/deploy/production.sample.rb config/deploy/production.rb
• edit config/deploy/production.rb to add server IP address
• when you're ready to deploy, just $ bundle exec cap production deploy