Isamuni

The word isamuni comes from the Sicilian dialect and means: let's stand up.

Isamuni is an aggregator of information for Facebook groups. The goal is to facilitate the communication and integration across the following parties:

Type I : Companies, corporations, startups, and spin-offs in the tech world
Type II : Incubators, accellerators, universities, and communities
Type III : Students, professionals, and enthusiasts

Checkout our Showcase

More info and roadmap in the wiki

How to deploy

Configure the environment

Facebook APP ID

To allow the login to work using Facebook, you will have to create a Facebook app (if you do not have one already). Here is a guide from Facebook on how to create one.

In your bash .profile file, add:

export ISAMUNI_APP_ID=appid
export ISAMUNI_APP_SECRET=secret
export ISAMUNI_ADMINS=<list of user uids divided by space ' '> # This is required only if you want to be an admin

Test end-point

If you want to run the app locally, you need to redirect the requests to the squirrels.vii.ovh server to your machine (localhost).

Change the file /etc/hosts (you must be root) to include the following line:

127.0.0.1	squirrels.vii.ovh

Run the Rails App

Requirements

Install Ruby (2.2.2+)
Install Rails (5.0+)

Setup

$ cd isamuni/webapp/
$ rails db:create # if necessary
$ rails db:migrate

To populate the database run:

$ rails db:seed

This will populate your database with some default entries. Otherwise use the crawler (see below).

Running the App

$ bundle install
$ rails server webrick
Connect to squirrels.vii.ovh:3000

Running the Crawler

Make sure the database was initialized, then

$ rails crawl

To execute crawling periodically you can either add that command to a cron job (remember setting PATH and ENV) or use

$ clockwork crawler_clock.rb

Docker

Installation

Linux

Install Docker for Linux (see here)

Mac

Install Virtual Box
Install Docker for Mac
Run docker run hello-world to check your installation
If a timout error is given, change your DNS to Google's DNS

Building the Image and Running the App

Create a .env file containing the following:

ISAMUNI_APP_ID=appid
ISAMUNI_APP_SECRET=secret
ISAMUNI_ADMINS=<list of user uids divided by comma ','>

Then build and run the containers:

$ docker-compose build
$ docker-compose up

You can also run a single components (eg. the crawler)

$ docker-compose up crawler

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