Welcome to gobot

A go + web tech teaching tool. My first go code, improvements are welcome and will gladly be pulled in.

This repository is missing the 3 main files, necessary to make the program work. Checkout nathantsoi.github.io/slides/gobot.html for the accompanying code and talk

Prereqs

• homebrew, available at brew.sh or by running ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

• golang, available via homebrew by running brew install go

Deployment

Deploying this app to heroku is easy

• sign up if you don't have an account https://id.heroku.com/signup

• install the heroku toolbelt https://toolbelt.heroku.com/

• setup heroku heroku login

• cd to the gobot directory if you're not already there and create a heroku app heroku create -b https://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go.git

• enable websockets heroku labs:enable websockets

• deploy the app git push heroku master

• open the app in your browser with heroku open

• check the status of the app with heroku ps

• logs are available via heroku logs --tail

Development

• run the app with PORT=3000 go run main.go

• when adding external dependencies, be sure to godep save

Legal

This header must be included, exactly as follows, in any redistributions or derivations:

2014, Nathan Tsoi

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.