This is a simple wee side project, where I'm trying out a few new (to me, at least) technologies, just as a playground for experimenting. In particular, I'm interested to see how paperclip and paper_trail can be made to interact to have versioned uploads of images. Along the way, I'm going to play with AngularJS to gain some more familiarilty, and I'm going to be experimenting with testing strategies for front end JS code.
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You can find a currently deployed version of the app up on Heroku at: https://guarded-chamber-7923.herokuapp.com/.
The app is being developed against Ruby 2.2.0 (noted in the Gemfile and
.ruby-version) and Rails 4.2. Ruby dependencies are managed through bundler, as
usual, so run:
bundle install
to get them installed. It requires PostgreSQL (I'm developing against v9.4, but I'm not using any particularly fancy features, so it should certainly work with any PostgreSQL 9.x). Once you've cloned the repository, you should be able to create the databases and load them with sample data by running:
rake db:create:all
rake db:reset
You need to install the associated bower dependencies, which will then be served through the asset pipeline. Install them with:
rake bower:install
This relies on bower being installed globally with npm, which you can do with npm install -g bower. If the bower dependencies change (you'll notice when Bowerfile
in the root is modified), you'll need to rerun the bower installation to get an up
to date set of dependencies.
You can then run the application server through foreman:
foreman start
which should start the app up on http://localhost:5000/.
The test suite requires phantomjs to be installed for running RSpec feature
tests that rely on JavaScript. If you're on Mac OS X and using Homebrew, then brew install phantomjs should do the trick. You can then run the entire test suite with:
rake
You can also use guard to keep an eye on file changes and automatically run the associated specs, with:
bundle exec guard start
I'm currently deploying the application to Heroku. In order to do that, I've added the appropriate remote:
git remote add heroku https://git.heroku.com/guarded-chamber-7923.git
I can then push updates out with:
git push heroku master
A similar strategy should probably work for you.