OpenShift websocket support demystified for application developers. This example app can be run locally on your own dev machine and in the OpenShift cloud. This example utilizes the express.js and socket.io libraries in node.js. See the config.js for the details for OpenShift.

Let's play ping-pong.

This project was forked from socketio-openshift-example and updated to work on Node.js (Latest) gears on Openshift. This was for my personal investigation, but others may find it useful.

Here are the console commands for Ubuntu Linux and/or Mac OS X with relevant tools installed. The first command cd ~ switches to your home directory, skip this if you want to install to some other dir.

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/nodebooks/socketio-openshift-example.git wsexample
cd wsexample
npm install
node server.js # or nodejs server.js in some Ubuntu releases

Now open your browser on http://127.0.0.1:8080