https://github.com/andypiper/mqtt-chat

Simple MQTT-based chat room client written in Ruby
https://github.com/andypiper/mqtt-chat

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Simple MQTT-based chat room client written in Ruby

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/andypiper/mqtt-chat
• Owner: andypiper
• Created: 2013-01-14T16:16:59.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-01-14T22:24:44.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-04T15:51:27.096Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: mqtt, ruby
• Language: Ruby
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• Size: 104 KB
• Stars: 14
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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Simple MQTT-based chat room client written in Ruby

## Install

1. Install and run an MQTT broker. [mosquitto](http://mosquitto.org) is one choice, this also works with [RabbitMQ](http://rabbitmq.com) version 3 which includes MQTT support, and with [many other MQTT servers](http://mqtt.org/software#brokers).

2. Install the [mqtt](http://github.com/njh/ruby-mqtt) and ncurses-ruby gems 

(NB the plain ncurses gem is harder to natively compile)

    ```sudo gem install mqtt ncurses-ruby```

## Run

1. Run the client

    ```ruby ./mqtt-chat.rb ```

2. If you want to configure the app to run against an alternative MQTT broker running on a different host/post. Modify this line:

    ```ruby

    mqtt = MQTT::Client.new('localhost')

    ```

    

    replacing 'localhost' with the hostname or IP address of your chosen broker, optionally with a port number, e.g.

    ```ruby

    mqtt = MQTT::Client.new('m2m.eclipse.org', 1883)

    ```

    

## Background

Modified from simple AMQP-based and MQTT-based chat servers originally published as Gists by [glejeune](https://gist.github.com/glejeune)

#### Changes from original

* added exit handler for cleaner end

* updated for newer ruby-mqtt gem

* fixed help text

* updated README