README

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.