lpoppublish

lpoppublish will listen for messages on N lists on a redis instance and publish those messages on redis channels.

Installation and Environment Setup

Install node.js (See download and install instructions here: http://nodejs.org/).

Install redis (See download and install instructions http://redis.io/topics/quickstart)

Install coffee-script

	> npm install -g coffee-script

General installation

> npm install lpoppublish -g

For development / testing

Clone this repository

> git clone [e-mail]:NathanGRomano/lpoppublish.git

cd into the app directory and install the dependencies

> npm install && npm shrinkwrap --dev

If you would like to install lpoppublish as a command line tool

> npm install -g

Running the Application

Start off by

> lpoppublish

You will get this output

  Usage: lpoppublish.coffee [options]

  Options:

    -h, --help               output usage information
    -V, --version            output the version number
    -q, --queues <string>    the queues to read from
    -c, --channels <string>  the channels to write to
    -i, --interval <number>  the number of miliseconds to wait before polling
    -r, --requests <number>  the number of requests to make each interval

Here is an example of listening on 3 lists and publishing to 3 channels with a sleep of 100 miliseconds and we poll twice during each interval.

> lpoppublish -q a,b,c -c a,b,c -i 100 -r 2

Running Tests

Unit Tests

Tests are run using grunt. You must first globally install the grunt-cli with npm.

> sudo npm install -g grunt-cli

To run the tets, just run grunt

> grunt

TODO

Specify the host and port in which redis lives