MR SpaceAPI

This implements the SpaceAPI for the Maschinenraum in Weimar, TH, Germany.

Deployment on Heroku

To deploy for free on Heroku, we need to create two apps. One app will contain the API itself, while the other app is running a background job that triggers the cache flush regularly. Both apps are contained in this single repository.

Add remotes pointing official Heroku account:

heroku git:remote --app mr-spaceapi --remote heroku
heroku git:remote --app mr-spaceapi-scheduler --remote scheduler

Alternatively, you can create two new apps on your own.

To push changes to Heroku:

git push heroku master
git push scheduler master

Configure main app:

heroku addons:add redistogo:nano --app mr-spaceapi

Configure scheduler app:

heroku scale web=0 --app mr-spaceapi-scheduler
heroku addons:add scheduler:standard --app mr-spaceapi-scheduler
heroku addons:open scheduler --app mr-spaceapi-scheduler

Now go and add a task running every 10 minutes with the command

rake update_status

For the last step you need to add Twitter API credentials to the Heroku configuration (not in repository)

heroku config:set --app mr-spaceapi TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY='...'
heroku config:set --app mr-spaceapi TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET='...'
heroku config:set --app mr-spaceapi TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN='...'
heroku config:set --app mr-spaceapi TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET='...'

Done.