Installation

Prerequisites

1. python 2.7+
2. tornado
3. sockjs-tornado
4. sockjs-client
5. pika
6. rabbitMQ

Install

$ pip install rabbitChat

If above dependencies do not get installed by the above command, then use the below steps to install them one by one.

Step 1 - Install pip

Follow the below methods for installing pip. One of them may help you to install pip in your system.

• Method 1 - https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/
• Method 2 - http://ask.xmodulo.com/install-pip-linux.html
• Method 3 - If you installed python on MAC OS X via brew install python, then pip is already installed along with python.

Step 2 - Install tornado:

$ pip install tornado

Step 3 - Install sockjs-tornado

$ pip install sockjs-tornado

Step 4 - Install pika

$ pip install pika

Step 5 - Install RabbitMQ

• For Mac Users

  1. Brew Install RabbitMQ

     $ brew install rabbitmq
     

  2. Configure RabbitMq, follow this link, this one and this.

• For Ubuntu/Linux Users

  1. Enable RabbitMQ application repository

     $ echo "deb http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian/ testing main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
     

  2. Add the verification key for the package

     $ wget -o http://www.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-signing-key-public.asc | sudo apt-key add -
     

  3. Update the sources with our new addition from above

     $ apt-get update
     

  4. And finally, download and install RabbitMQ

     $ sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server
     

  5. Configure RabbitMQ, follow this link, this one and this.