/jService

A set of simple trivia service that serves the answers/questions pulled from jArchive

Primary LanguageRubyMIT LicenseMIT

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Requirements

  • Ruby 3.1+
  • Postgres

Installation

  • clone this repo
  • In terminal, cd into the directory you cloned into
  • run bundle install
  • set up the database:
    • run postgres
    • createuser -P -d steveo (password stepheno)
    • rails db:create
    • rake db:create
  • run rails s
  • run rake 'get_clues[1,38]' -- NOTE: this will grab approx 200K clues and takes hours. The arguments here are the range of season you want to grab. You can save some time and grab selected seasons by doing something like rake get_clues[20,31], which would only get seasons 20 through 31
  • visit http://localhost:3000/api/random or view config\routes.rb file for more
  • shoot me a pull request to the readme with your app in the wild!