rstat.us

rstat.us is a microblogging site built on top of the ostatus protocol.

Running your own (on Heroku)

You will need a validated heroku account.

Just do this:

$ git clone https://github.com/hotsh/rstat.us.git
$ cd rstat.us
$ heroku create --stack bamboo-mri-1.9.2
$ heroku addons:add mongohq:free
$ heroku addons:add sendgrid:free
$ git push heroku master

Bam!

BUT DON"T YET!!!!1111

This is nowhere near done. Jump on Freenode and ping 'steveklabnik' if you want to contribute in some way.

Running a local copy

First off: you will need MongoDB (www.mongodb.org). They have a quickstart guide for getting it installed and running.

Then do the same as above:

$ git clone https://github.com/hotsh/rstat.us.git (or your own fork, if applicable)
$ cd rstat.us

Copy the config file; if you have actual Twitter API keys, you can add yours, but this file just needs to exist for the server to work.

$ cp config.yml.sample config.yml

Then update your gemset:

$ gem install bundler && bundle install

And instead of using heroku, start the server with sinatra:

$ rackup