RoRdit

RoRdit is a link aggregation web application like Reddit and Hacker News.

It uses number of technologies: Ruby on Rails for the back-end, VueJS for the front-end, PostgreSQL for database management, Elasticsearch for search engine.

With Rordit app, you can share link, make comment or give a point to link or comment after register the application.

You can test it here: https://rordit.herokuapp.com

Installation

First of all we need to database management system. Install PostgreSQL with this command:

$ brew install postgresql
After the installation we need to run PostgreSQL with this command:

$ pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start

PS: If you want, you can use Postgres app for starting and stopping PosgreSQL easily.
Now we need to RoRdit application. You can clone this repo with:

$ git clone git@github.com:mertbulan/RoRdit.git
After the cloning process we need to install gems which are required for this application:

$ cd RoRdit && bundle
Now, we need to create database and create some settings. You have two options:
- If you want create database and seed this database (with creating 1 admin user, 50 users, 50 links from Hacker News, 100 points, 100 comments):
  
  $ rake db:setup
- Or you can create database and add only necessary site settings in Rails console:
  
  $ rake db:create
  
  $ rails c
```
AdminUser.create(email: 'admin@example.com', password: 'password', password_confirmation: 'password')
SiteSetting.create(title: "RoRdit", slogan: "Slogan is here.")
```
  PS: If you don't want to do this job in rails console, you can just run settings task:
  
  $ rake settings:create
After creating database and seeding with settings, we need to install elasticsearch. For that you have two options:
- If you want to use Heroku, there is a good add-on for that called Bonsai. You only need to create an account for Bonsai and install Bonsai to your Heroku app. There is a guide for that at here.
- If you want to run elasticsearch on your local server;
  1. First, we need to install elasticsearch:
    
    $ brew install elasticsearch
  2. Then, delete bonsai-elasticsearch-rails gem and add elasticsearch-model and elasticsearch-rails gems to Gemfile.
```
    gem 'elasticsearch-model'
    gem 'elasticsearch-rails'
```
  1. Finally, we need to run elasticsearch with this command:
    
    $ elasticsearch
After the installation of elastichsarch we have one step for configuration the elasticsearch. In Rails console, we need to create index and import our Link model.

$ rails c
```
   Link.create_index!
   Link.import
```
After the all steps, now, we can run the server with this command:

$ rails s

If you want you can change your site title, slogan and logo at admin panel page: localhost:3000/admin

❗ Don't forget to add SMTP settings at admin panel. Otherwise password recovery feature does not work.

Kitton/RoRdit

RoRdit

Installation