Cubism

On Cube and Cubism, and interfacing with them from Python.

Part 1: Hello Cube World

A quick and dirty tutorial to getting Cube installed and listening for new time-series data.

Step 1: install mongodb:

brew install mongodb

Step 2: install node.js

brew install node

Step 3: install cube using node package manager

npm install cube
cd node_modules/cube
npm install

This may spit out some kind of message, and look like it didn't install successfully, but you can just pretend like everything went fine and continue.

Step 4: In another terminal, start mongo daemon:

mongod

Step 5: start up cube's collector and evaluator:

cd node_modules/cube
node bin/collector.js 2>&1
node bin/evaluator.js 2>&1

These start on ports 1080 and 1081. Now test them out: visit localhost:1080 and localhost:1081

To post stuff to mongodb, post it to http://localhost:1080/1.0/event/put

Part 2: Talk to the Cube

In which I decipher how, exactly, to "put" data into the Mongodb, what needs to go into the dict structure, how to check what's been added to the mongodb, basically how to get things INTO the db.

Part 3: Alter/Delete

How to alter and delete records in MongoDB

Part 4: Hello Cubism World

Hello world getting cubism installed and up and running and showing something

References

• http://square.github.io/cube/
• http://square.github.io/cubism/
• http://www.joecjr.com/2013/04/06/cubism-js-part-1-getting-cube-working/