Poetry - A Distributed System Integrating Multiple Embedded Nodes with

Multiple Server Nodes

This system uses WebApps at every node, each performing node specific behaviors.

Open Source

This application is initially created by David E. Smyth under the MIT License, and therefore is and will remain open source software.

Implementation Technology

This application is implemented using Ruby on Rails, specifically Ruby 2.0.0 and Rails 4.0.8.

The development process closely follows that suggested by Michael Hartl in the Ruby on Rails Tutorial. Hence, RSpec is used for test driven development, with Capybara and Selenium for automated user testing. Hence it is and will forever remain bug free ;-)

Other things to be covered better and better:

System dependencies Ruby on Rails, of course. Also, OpenCV for image processing via the opencv gem.
Configuration brew install opencv gem install ruby-opencv -- --with-opencv-dir=/usr/local/lib
Database creation
Database initialization
How to run the test suite
Services (job queues, cache servers, search engines, etc.)

Uses Devise for confirmation using email. Therefore, need mailcatcher. To download and start:

% gem install mailcatcher % mailcatcher

To do test runs, can monitor mail activity at http://localhost:1080

Deployment instructions