/songwriter_project

Full-stack Rails application with admin dashboard for managing blog posts and songs. Integrated with Amazon Web Services for file storage and content delivery network. Admin receives automated email whenever a contact form is submitted. Blog page uses AJAX for faster article loading. Home page and blog page use variants to provide a good user interface on large and small screens.

Primary LanguageRuby

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Welcome to the Songwriter Project. This Rails application is meant for songwriters to share their music and connect with listeners. Components will include song uploads, chord charts, a blog, comments, and an admin dashboard to make it easy for the site owner to add and update music and articles.

The project uses:

  • Ruby version 2.0.0-p0

  • Rails 4.0.4

  • Paperclip to manage file attachments

  • Amazon’s S3 storage for file attachments

  • Devise to manage users

  • Postgresql

  • Rspec for unit and integration tests (Run full suite with “bundle exec rspec”)

Deployment Steps:

  • Create config/database.yml and add your database information

  • Use config/template_for_application.yml to create a config/application.yml with your credentials

  • Install bundler

  • Bundle install

  • Bundle exec rake db:create

  • Bundle exec rake db:migrate

  • Optional: Add an admin, songs, or articles to db/seeds.rb and run bundle exec rake db:seed

  • If you have not done so already, create an admin via the command line or the console

  • Bundle exec rake secret (to create a new secret token)

Test Notes:

  • See comments in config/environments/test.rb for info on configuring file storage for tests