This is a simple implementation of an Acme Cafe pie tracker. It uses node.js + WebSockets + Twitter Streaming API to push tweets onto a page and into MongoDB in realtime. It has a long way to go but this is a good start.

Currently working:

• Insert tweets into MongoDB and broadcast immediately onto websocket
• Render pages using express and pull tweets from MongoDB.

Todo:

• add socket.IO or similar for cross browser streaming
• add live sorted leaderboard and recent pies tracking
• add heuristic analysis to track the kind of pies

To get started:

• install node.js, express, and ejs.
• clone the repository with 'git clone git://github.com/tylor/acme-pie-tracker.git'
• move into the directory 'cd acme-pie-tracker'
• initialize the submodules: 'git submodule update --init'
• build node-mongodb-native:
  • move into the directory 'cd libs/node-mongodb-native'
  • build it by running 'make'
  • move back to root: 'cd ../..'
• enter your Twitter credentials in acme-pie-tracker.js
• start mongodb server
• start Acme pie server by running 'node acme-pie-tracker.js'.
• open acme-pie-tracker.html in a modern browser with WebSockets support, like Chrome.