What is Dimensions?

This web application is the winning entry from the King5 News Hackathon held October 14-16th in Seattle, WA. The application is a local news aggregator with highly customizable filtering system.

http://hackingseattlenews.com/2011/10/slides-from-the-winning-presentation/

Authors

• Leon Wong https://github.com/leonwong
• Stephen Becker IV https://github.com/sbeckeriv
• Mohammad Almalkawi https://github.com/almalkawi
• Adam Loving https://github.com/adamloving
• Lewis Lin http://www.linkedin.com/in/lewislin

Prerequisites

This project uses

• Ruby on Rails 3.0 http://rubyonrails.org/
• Elastic Search http://www.elasticsearch.org/
• slim http://slim-lang.org/
• compass https://github.com/chriseppstein/compass/tree
• tire https://github.com/karmi/tire
• crack https://github.com/jnunemaker/crack
• barista https://github.com/Sutto/barista
• Adam Loving's Rails Bootstrap https://github.com/adamloving/rails-bootstrap
• Twitter's Bootstrap http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap

Elastic Search Notes

ruby script/es/load_es.rb http://IP:9200/ && ruby script/es/load_file.rb data/articles.json http://IP:9200/

• load_es - builds out schema for es. First arg is host
• load_file - parses json file and build out ES json. first arg file second arg host

Hosts default to local if not present