yevgenko / ruby-auction_sniper

Web based implementation of Auction Sniper example from "Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests"

Ruby, Web based implementation of Auction Sniper example from "Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests"

AuctionSniper

An application that automatically bids in auctions.

Initial choices

XMPP message broker

Openfire website "Service Unavailable"

Looking for alternatives here: https://xmpp.org/software/servers.html

ejabberd looks good: https://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd

XMPP client for ruby: https://github.com/xmpp4r/xmpp4r

Web GUI testing framework: https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara

bundler gem for packaging and managing dependencies: https://bundler.io/v1.13/guides/creating_gem

Setting up ejabberd

sudo apt-get install ejabberd
sudo ejabberdctl start
sudo ejabberdctl register sniper localhost sniper
sudo ejabberdctl register auction-item-54321 localhost auction
sudo ejabberdctl register auction-item-65432 localhost auction

Notes

There is no ChatManager concept in xmpp4r, everything is a message, using message.from as a jid for the current chat.