Erlymob

Erlymob is a Twitter-based event aggregator. It collects tweets in real time and distributes them to those who have the best opportunity to attend. Flash mobs, local deals, activism - everyone can find something social.

Erlymob was designed to run with the frontend and backend running in different Erlang VMs and so far has only been tested with Ubuntu Linux and Erlang R15B. To test it you'll need to start two different Erlang shells on the same computer. The two components in the system are named emob (backend) and emob_ui (frontend). The instructions to build, deploy and run the system are the following:

emob

Build:

cd emob
make deps
make
make console

Set Up (only needs to be done once per fresh install):

emob:setup().

Deploy:

emob:start().

emob_ui

Build:

cd emob_ui
make deps
make compile

Deploy:

./init-dev.sh

Accessing the web interface

To access the web interface with a web browser locally you can go to http://localhost:3000/ or you can try the public web site on http://erlymob.com.

Posting a new mob

To post a new mob, send a tweet to @erlymob_test containing the text you want to post. It will then be visible on your home screen in Erlymob.