First, make a file for your environment variables:
touch config/initializers/_environment_variables.rb
We're using Devise so you should set Devise.secret_key in the _environment_variables.rb file.
Copy over the database.yml file from config/sample/database.yml to config/database.yml:
cp config/sample/database.yml config/database.yml
Create the database using:
rake db:create
Migrate the database:
rake db:migrate
To seed the database, we have a rake task that loads users specifically for development purposes only.
rake db:seed
For faster development, you might want to add yourself to the db/seeds/development.rb file.
Start the server:
rails s -p 3002
Or use foreman: foreman start -e development.env
And to see development logs run if using foreman: tail -f log/development.log
Happy developing!
There's a file, /config/initializers/_environment_variables.rb, which contains environment variables (mostly keys) that are not safe to upload to GitHub (added to .gitignore) so if you create this file, you can set your environment variables here easily.
For example:
ENV['SECRET_KEY'] = 'secret-password'
Make sure to set up GITHUB_KEY and GITHUB_SECRET to have the auth work!
Since we use Git to deploy to Heroku, this file won't be included, so you'll have to set the environment variables manually, and this can be done just once. The equivalent of the above on Heroku is:
heroku config:set SECRET_KEY=secret-password