Use firebase for live-writing

[alexslade]

this was not as easy as I first thought!

Here's a rough semi-working version. We simplify the reader side of things by just binding to a firebase collection. Now, at the writer side of things it gets a bit more complex. We have to basically keep a firebase collection in sync with what's being written (doing it server-side would be too costly and sort of defeat the point I think?)

It doesn't fully work, I just wanted to check your thoughts, it seems a little bit hacky.

IF we were only using firebase, and we had a little ember app as the writer, this would be so simple. You just call the usual ember.set commands and it all happens automatically. But we aren't :P

[bru]

Still had no time to look into this, sorry.
I'll try again tonight!

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Alex Heeton notifications@github.comwrote:

this was not as easy as I first thought!

Here's a rough semi-working version. We simplify the reader side of things
by just binding to a firebase collection. Now, at the writer side of things
it gets a bit more complex. We have to basically keep a firebase collection
in sync with what's being written (doing it server-side would be too costly
and sort of defeat the point I think?)

It doesn't fully work, I just wanted to check your thoughts, it seems a
little bit hacky.

IF we were only using firebase, and we had a little ember app as the
writer, this would be so simple. You just call the usual ember.set commands

and it all happens automatically. But we aren't :P

You can merge this Pull Request by running

git pull https://github.com/100hours/lws firebase

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#13
Commit Summary

• wip

File Changes

• A app/assets/javascripts/emberfire.jshttps://github.com/Use firebase for live-writing #13/files#diff-0(140)
• A app/assets/javascripts/firebase.jshttps://github.com/Use firebase for live-writing #13/files#diff-1(145)
• M app/assets/javascripts/live_reader.js.coffeehttps://github.com/Use firebase for live-writing #13/files#diff-2(3)
• M app/assets/javascripts/routes/documents.js.coffee.erbhttps://github.com/Use firebase for live-writing #13/files#diff-3(20)
• M app/assets/javascripts/write_room.js.coffeehttps://github.com/Use firebase for live-writing #13/files#diff-4(33)
• M app/controllers/writeroom/documents_controller.rbhttps://github.com/Use firebase for live-writing #13/files#diff-5(5)
• M app/models/document.rbhttps://github.com/Use firebase for live-writing #13/files#diff-6(8)
• M app/views/writeroom/documents/edit.html.hamlhttps://github.com/Use firebase for live-writing #13/files#diff-7(2)

Patch Links:

• https://github.com/100hours/lws/pull/13.patch
• https://github.com/100hours/lws/pull/13.diff

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