Chat with your friends while watching a video together!
This is a video app, which lets people talk via video conferencing, and when ready, the moderator can switch to "Watch Party" mode and share their screen. The "Watch Party" mode will share the moderator's screen, put the site into dark mode and disable everyone's microphones and cameras. Participants can continue to chat via text.
This app requires Ruby v2.5 or greater and Rails 6.0 or greater.
Once you clone the repository, first change into the directory and execute the following commands in your terminal:
$ bundle install
$ yarn install
$ rake db:migrateLastly, rename the .env.sample file to .env.
To use this app you must sign up for an account with the Vonage Video API. Once you have an account, you can create a
new video project. That project will assign you a project level API key and secret. Copy those values into your .env
file in the API_KEY and API_SECRET parameters, respectively.
You also must define a moderator name, which will be used to provide one user with moderator privileges. Those
privileges include the ability to switch between video chat and screen share modes. You can define that name in the
.env file within the MODERATOR_NAME value.
Lastly, you must set a PARTY_PASSWORD in your environment variables. This password will be used to allow participants
into the application. You can define that value in the .env file within the PARTY_PASSWORD key.
Once you have done that, you can start your app locally by running bundle exec rails s from the command line and
navigate to localhost:3000 in your web browser.
The app reads from /config/site_info.yml to gather data such as the website title and the various textual elements of the site. This is entirely customizable.
To edit the data open up /config/site_info.yml in your code editor. The following options are available:
lang: # The ISO 2 letter language code of the site, for example en for American English or he for Hebrew
lang_direction: # The language direction of the text, values can be either rtl or ltr
landing_page:
welcome_message:
text: # The landing page welcome message, any string of text
name_form:
text: # The text in the form asking for the name of the participant, any string of text
name_placeholder_text: # The placeholder for the name text field, any string of text
password_placeholder_text: # The placeholder for the password text field, any string of text
submit_button_text: # The text for the name form submit button, any string of text
navbar:
title:
text: # The title in the navigation bar, any string of text
text_chat:
submit_button_text: # The text for the chat form submit button, any string of text
placeholder_text: # The placeholder text for the chat form text form, any string of textIf you do not edit the data in the site_info.yml, the defaults in the file in this repository will be rendered.
You can deploy the application directly from this GitHub repository by clicking on the Deploy to Heroku button at the top of this README. Once you do that you still must set your Vonage OpenTok API credentials and information in Heroku. You can either do so at the time you are initializing your application after you have the clicked the Deploy to Heroku button above, or after from within the Heroku Dashboard.
After you have clicked the above Deploy to Heroku button, you will see three config vars in the Heroku deployment settings. Add your Vonage OpenTok API credentials and moderator name in the appropriate value box for each key before clicking the final Deploy app button. This will ensure your application is deployed to Heroku with your information.
Alternatively, you can do so from with your Heroku Dashboard's application settings by managing the config vars for your Video Watch Party app after deploying. You will need to add the four environment variables: OPENTOK_API_KEY, OPENTOK_API_SECRET, MODERATOR_NAME, PARTY_PASSWORD.
This library is released under the MIT License