openingquot.es

Unearthing mankind's best quotes, one epigraph at a time

This webapp is being developed by me, Fred Rocha, in public. You can tag along for the adventure here.

Some novelists choose to open their books with a quote from another writer. This is called an epigraph. These quotes taken out of their original context are given a new life, necessarily detached from the former one. Since writers are the utmost specialists in their fields, and since the beginning of a work has such relevance to the whole, I risk saying that these selected quotes will necessarily be the crème de la crème of the world’s literature. Change my mind.

This website / webapp will be a repository for those epigraphs. Send your own favorites.

Thanks to Giacomo Miceli for reminding me this was a worthwhile pursuit, Madalena Marques for the constant inspiration and out-of-the-box thinking, and Christina Casnellie for the work residency in London, with the best food in town and a steady stream of priceless epigraphs.

Running the project

Install Postgres

on Ubuntu

sudo apt update sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib libpq-dev sudo -u postgres createuser -s <your-username> -P

bundle install

macos, using homebrew

xcode-select --install brew update brew install postgresql

From the root of the project, do:

bundle install

brew services start postgresql psql postgres

Key in:

CREATE ROLE fred WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'pantera1234'; ALTER ROLE fred CREATEDB;

bin/rails db:create db:migrate db:seed

You're done

Compiling SASS styles

Dev

Run this command from the root of the project (it also runs the Puma server for you):

./bin/dev