ras pi version of jook box

jook_pi.rb

require 'json'
require 'rest-client'

URL = "http://music-hasalon-api.herokuapp.com"
AWS_URL = 'http://ec2-54-85-146-44.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8989/api/info?url='

$current_song = nil

def direct_url(yt_link)
  JSON.parse(RestClient.get("#{AWS_URL}#{yt_link.split('&feature=')[0]}"))["direct_url"]
end

Thread.new do
  puts "Thread is running..."
  loop do
    begin
      party = JSON.parse(RestClient.get("#{URL}/parties/27"))["party"]
      request = party["requests"].first

      unless request["id"] == $current_song
        puts 'killing all!'
        `sudo killall omxplayer.bin`
        `sudo killall poptart`
        puts 'all have been killed!'
      end
    rescue 
      puts 'unless troubles'
    end

    sleep 5
    puts "."
  end
end

loop do
  begin
    puts 'getting requests'
    party = JSON.parse(RestClient.get("#{URL}/parties/27"))["party"]
    request = party["requests"].first
    puts "\nfirst request: #{request}\n"

    puts 'getting direct url'
    dir_uri = direct_url(request["url"])
    puts dir_uri

    puts 'playing song'
    $current_song = request["id"]

    system "/home/pi/poptart/poptart -s 80 -t 60000 'by: #{request['user']['name'].split(' ')[0]}' &"
    `omxplayer #{dir_uri}`

    puts 'song is done setting to played'
    RestClient.patch("#{URL}/requests/#{request['id']}/played", {
        user_access_token: "54f37dcce50f53fe37f8653160aa1c56"
      })
    puts 'song set played!'
  rescue 
    puts "\nno songs :(\n"
  end

  sleep 5
end