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Work-in-progress self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.

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Stringer

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A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.

Stringer has no external dependencies, no social recommendations/sharing, and no fancy machine learning algorithms.

But it does have keyboard shortcuts and was made with love!

Installation

Stringer is a Ruby app based on Rails, PostgreSQL, Backbone.js and GoodJob.

Deploy to Heroku

Stringer will run just fine on the Eco/Basic Heroku plans.

Instructions are provided for deploying to Heroku manually, to any Ruby compatible Linux-based VPS, to Docker and to OpenShift.

Niceties

Keyboard Shortcuts

You can access the keyboard shortcuts when using the app by hitting ?.

Using your own domain with Heroku

You can run Stringer at http://reader.yourdomain.com using a CNAME.

If you are on Heroku:

heroku domains:add reader.yourdomain.com

Go to your registrar and add a CNAME:

Record: CNAME
Name: reader
Target: your-heroku-instance.herokuapp.com

Wait a few minutes for changes to propagate.

Fever API

Stringer implements a clone of Fever's API so it can be used with any mobile client that supports Fever.

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Use the following settings:

Server: {path-to-stringer}/fever (e.g. http://reader.example.com/fever)

Email: stringer (case-sensitive)
Password: {your-stringer-password}

Translations

Stringer has been translated to several other languages. Your language can be set with the LOCALE environment variable.

To set your locale on Heroku, run heroku config:set LOCALE=en.

If you would like to translate Stringer to your preferred language, please use LocaleApp.

Clean up old read stories on Heroku

You can clean up old stories by running: rake cleanup_old_stories

By default, this removes read stories that are more than 30 days old (that are not starred). You can either run this manually or add it as a scheduled task.

Development

Run the Ruby tests with rspec.

Run the Javascript tests with rake test_js and then open a browser to http://localhost:4567/test.

Getting Started

To get started using Stringer for development you first need to install foreman.

gem install foreman

Then run the following commands.

bundle install
rake db:migrate
foreman start

The application will be running on port 5000.

You can launch an interactive console (a la rails c) using rake console.

Acknowledgments

Most of the heavy-lifting is done by feedjira and feedbag.

General sexiness courtesy of Twitter Bootstrap and Flat UI.

ReenieBeanie Font Copyright © 2010 Typeco (james@typeco.com). Licensed under SIL Open Font License, 1.1.

Lato Font Copyright © 2010-2011 by tyPoland Lukasz Dziedzic (team@latofonts.com). Licensed under SIL Open Font License, 1.1.

Contact

If you have a question, feature idea, or are running into problems, our preferred method of contact is to open an issue on GitHub. This allows multiple people to weigh in, and we can keep everything in one place. Thanks!

Maintainers

Robert Fletcher boon.gl

Alumni

Matt Swanson (creator), mdswanson.com, @_swanson Victor Koronen, victor.koronen.se, @victorkoronen

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