Application allows users to manage a list of “friends” using a basic Rails scaffold. Each friend will have a Name and Avatar. Paperclip will provide the image upload and resizing functionality. The app will demonstrate how to create different sized thumbnails, display resized images on different screens, and gracefully degrade to display missing avatars “missing.png” for friends without an avatar.
Clone the git repository
$ git clone git@github.com:thoughtbot/paperclip_demo.git
$ cd paperclip_demo
$ bundle
Create database and run migrations
$ rake db:create db:migrate
Run the rails server
$ rails s
From a web browser access the site via localhost:3000
Create an application container on Heroku
$ heroku create
Push the code to the Heroku container
$ git push heroku master
Run any database migrations
$ heroku rake db:migrate
Set the AWS S3 config vars
$ heroku config:add AWS_BUCKET=your_bucket_name
$ heroku config:add AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your_access_key_id
$ heroku config:add AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your_secret_access_key
Now view your Heroku application
$ heroku open
RSpec and Capybara used for Integration and Unit tests
$ rspec
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