GorillaFM

Radio Gorilla FM is a project created by music enthusiasts and its listeners.

A super-interactive, one-page website for an online radio station. Besides listening to the music, you can:

• browse the radio's track database and request songs online;
• chat with other listeners;
• browse your and your friends' profiles, favourite tracks and activities;
• gain experience as a listener and advance your Gorilla rank;
• scrobble listened songs to LastFM and the Facebook OpenGraph API.

Tech wrap-up

Frontend application

• Built in AngularJS as a fully stand-alone frontend application
• Connects to the API server via HTTP & WebSockets
• Tooling: Grunt, SASS, Jade, CoffeeScript

Back-end server

• Built in Ruby on Rails
• HTTP and WebSockets API endpoints
• Includes an admin panel
• Full-text search with Elasticsearch
• Redis to synchronise multiple Rails instances (server, workers, WebSockets) and for caching

Both applications are automatically deployable via Git and Capistrano.