Check it out! This is the source code for hackety-hack.com, which is the site for Hackety Hack! You can check it out at... http://hackety-hack.com !
So you'd like to hack on the site, eh? No problem. It's built on a few things:
- Ruby - Ruby is a great programming language.
- Sinatra - Sinatra is a classy web framework in Ruby.
- Bundler - Bundler manages gem dependencies.
- MongoDB - MongoDB is a sweet database.
- Git - git is a Distributed Version Control System.
This is all you need to get started!
To install git, check out the download page on the git site.
Once you have git installed, you can clone the repository:
git clone http://github.com/hacketyhack/hackety-hack.com.git
This will make a 'hackety-hack.com' directory in the current directory.
You probably already have Ruby 1.8.7 installed on your computer. If not, see the download page.
Bundler is a Ruby gem, so you can use the gem program to install it:
gem install bundler
Since Sinatra is also a gem, you can install it (and all the other dependancies) with bundle:
cd hackety-hack.com
bundle install
You can find instructions for installing MongoDB on their website.
Once you've got everything installed, make sure that you have the MongoDB server running. You'll probably use the mongod command to do this. I do this:
mongod
Next, use rackup to start a web server:
rackup config.ru
And you should have everything going on localhost, at port 9292. Open your browser to 'http://localhost:9292' and check it out!
We use both RSpec and Steak for testing. You can run this command to run all of the tests:
rake spec
We're aiming for as large of test coverage as possible, though not quite 100%. More tests are always better!
We use GitHub Issues to keep track of bugs and the features that we'd like to have. If you're looking for something to do, you can try checking there!