alce/tweet-archiver

Sample Scala/mongoDB twitter application

TweetArchiver

TweetArchiver is a very simple Scala project that includes:

• A command line tool that uses dispatch-twitter to fetch a few tweets and insert them into a mongoDB collection using the Scala mongoDB driver.
• A tiny Scalatra servlet to display the tweets.

TwitterArchiver is a port of an example application from MongoDB in Action. It's a learning excercise and is not fit for any purpose other than experimentation.

Running the project

1. Make sure mongod is alive and well

    % mongo 
    MongoDB shell version: 2.0.4
    connecting to: test
    > exit
    bye
   

or Install mongoDB

2. Clone this repo

    git clone https://github.com/alce/tweet-archiver.git
    cd tweet-archiver
   

3. Run Simple Build Tool

    % sbt
    [info] Loading project definition from ... 
    [info] Loading project definition from ...
    [info] Set current project to ..
    > 
   

or Install SBT

4. Fetch some tweets and run the server. At the sbt command prompt type:

    > run updater
    > container:start
   

5. Hit localhost:8080

Issues

If you execute > run updater at the sbt prompt a couple of times, an exception will probably be thrown:

Reported exception:
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

There's some info over at StackOverflow but I haven't looked into it.