WildSoNet::Streamer

Simple way to stream data from server to client’s browser.

Status

No documentation
No tests

Not production ready … experimental … proof of concept.

Browsers

Mac

Safari OK
Chrome OK
Firefox OK
Opera Not tested

Windows

IE Not tested
Chrome Not tested
Firefox Not tested
Safari Not tested
Opera

Linux

Firefox Not tested
Chrome Not tested
Opera
Konqueror Not tested

iOS

WebKit Not tested
Opera Not tested

Android

WebKit Not tested
Opera Not tested

Usage

Start server at specific address and port
Configure front-end server to proxy requests to streamer
Request stream from your website
Push messages from your application using Hazelcast

Starting Streamer server

address = "0.0.0.0"
port = 3001
WildSoNet::Streamer::Server.start(port, address)

Configure nginx for proxying

location /streamer {
  proxy_pass http://address:port;

chunked_transfer_encoding on; proxy_buffering off;

Embed to your site

<script type="text/javascript" src="/streamer.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
  Streamer.url = "/streamer" //URL to used to access streams, configured in previous step
  Streamer.start(client_id) // Starts stream with client ID
</script>

Push messages from application

When streamer is embedded into application

WildSoNet::Streamer::Server.push(client_id, message)

or when messages are distributed

WildSoNet::Hazelcast.queue("streamer").put(Marshal.dump([client_id, message]))

Contributing to wildsonet-streamer

Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn’t been implemented or the bug hasn’t been fixed yet
Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn’t requested it and/or contributed it
Fork the project
Start a feature/bugfix branch
Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.