ConfSays

A Java EE 7 application to track twitter interactions happening during a conference.

How to deploy the application on OpenShift

• Create an OpenShift Online account https://www.openshift.com/

• Install OpenShift command-line tool rhc https://www.openshift.com/developers/rhc-client-tools-install

• Create a Wildfly application using OpenShift Online web console.

• Add MySQL 5.5 cartridge

  $ rhc cartridge-add --app <app_name> mysql-5.5

• Clone the application to local machine.

  $ rhc git-clone <app-name>

• Pull the source code from Git repository

  $ git remote add upstream -m master https://github.com/shekhargulati/confsays.git
  $ git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master

• Create a new twitter application https://dev.twitter.com/

• Create four environment variables

  $ rhc env-set --app <app_name> TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=<consumer_key>
  $ rhc env-set --app <app_name> TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=<consumer_secret>
  $ rhc env-set --app <app_name> TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=<access_token>
  $ rhc env-set --app <app_name> TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=<access_secret>

• Deploy the application

  $ git push