aturley / pony-rc-together-realtime

A pony program that connects to Recurse Center's virtual space

RC Together Real-Time

Overview

This program uses websockets to maintain a real-time connection to RC Together, the virtual Recurse Center space.

Features

Currently it does the following:

• connects to RC Together using a websocket connection
• subscribes to the ApiChannel channel
• dumps where users (or at least their avatars) are

Build

Prerequisites

You must have corral (the Pony package manager) and ponyc (the Pony compiler) installed in order to build this project. The easiest way to get these tools is to install ponyup and then run the following commands

ponyup update ponyc release
ponyup update corral release

Building

To build the project, run the following commands:

corral fetch
corral run -- ponyc -Dopenssl_0.9.0 --output build

You may need to change -Dopenssl_0.9.0 to -Dopenssl_1.1.x depending on which version of OpenSSL you are using.

Run

The program depends on the environment variables APP_ID and APP_SECRET. You can get these by creating an app in RC Together.