diff --git a/matthew_ringel/.gitignore b/matthew_ringel/.gitignore
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+**/node_modules
+/log/*
diff --git a/matthew_ringel/README.md b/matthew_ringel/README.md
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+# Simple TCP Server
+**Matthew Ringel  
+Code Fellows sea-d45-javascript  
+November 3, 2015**
+
+This is a simple tcp server that takes any REST request and saves
+it to a unique file in the log directory with a filename based
+on the system time when saved.
+
+Mocha testing uses to chai-http to verify that the file saved has
+the contents of the request.
diff --git a/matthew_ringel/log/.include b/matthew_ringel/log/.include
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diff --git a/matthew_ringel/package.json b/matthew_ringel/package.json
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+{
+  "name": "simpletcp",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "description": "simple tcp server that saves each REST request to a unique file",
+  "main": "tcp_server.js",
+  "directories": {
+    "test": "test"
+  },
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+  },
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/mringel/create_a_tcp_server.git"
+  },
+  "keywords": [
+    "tcp",
+    "node"
+  ],
+  "author": "matthew ringel",
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/mringel/create_a_tcp_server/issues"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/mringel/create_a_tcp_server#readme"
+}
diff --git a/matthew_ringel/tcp_server.js b/matthew_ringel/tcp_server.js
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+var net = require('net');
+var fs = require('fs');
+var os = require('os');
+
+var server = net.createServer(function(socket) {
+  socket.on('data', function(data) {
+    var date = new Date();
+    var filename = String(date.getTime());
+    fs.writeFileSync(__dirname + "/log/" + filename,data.toString());
+    socket.end();
+  });
+
+  socket.on('end', function() {
+    console.log('socket closed');
+  });
+});
+
+server.listen('3000', function() {
+  console.log('server running on port 3000');
+});
diff --git a/matthew_ringel/test/tcp_test.js b/matthew_ringel/test/tcp_test.js
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+var chai = require('chai');
+var chaiHttp = require('chai-http');
+var fs = require('fs');
+
+chai.use(chaiHttp);
+
+var appServer = 'http://localhost:3000';
+
+describe('an http request', function() {
+
+  it('should log a file containing "chai-test: true"', function() {
+    var newFile;
+    chai.request(appServer)
+      .put('/test')
+      .set('chai-test', 'true')
+      .then(function (done) {
+        fs.watch(__dirname + '/../log/', function(event, filename) {
+          newFile = filename;
+          done();
+        });
+        var file = fs.readFileSync(String(newFile));
+        expect(file.toString()).to.contain('chai-test: true');
+      });
+  });
+});