Opinionate gathers different people's opinions on a variety of trending topics. It was created at the MIT Blueprint Hackathon by Harshal Sheth, Michael Colavita, Alok Puranik, and Nihar Sheth, where it won the 2nd place prize.
- Ruby 2.2.2
- Rails 4.2.0
- A MySQL Server
- Foreman Gem
- A Redis Server
- Resque Gem
- Indico.io Gem
- Other gems specified in the Gemfile
When setting up Opinionate, you will have to create the config/database.yml and the config/secrets.yml.
To create the database and tables, run rake db:create db:schema:load. The refresh-trends.sh command will update the database with the newest trends from Google Trends and Twitter Trends. Note that this command should be used only if a Resque worker is also running (it will be if the server has been started).
Create a file called env.sh which defines the variable SECRET_KEY_BASE.
The server can be started using docker-compose. On first run, initialize the database by running docker-compose exec web rake db:create db:schema:load.
Opinionate is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.