Blacknote

This is a Rails 5 app.

Documentation

This README describes the purpose of this repository and how to set up a development environment. Other sources of documentation are as follows:

• UI and API designs are in doc/

Prerequisites

This project requires:

• Ruby 2.4.1, preferably managed using rbenv
• Chromedriver for Capybara testing
• PostgreSQL must be installed and accepting connections
• Redis must be installed and running on localhost with the default port

On a Mac, you can obtain all of the above packages using Homebrew.

If you need help setting up a Ruby development environment, check out this Rails OS X Setup Guide.

Getting started

bin/setup

Run the bin/setup script. This script will:

• Check you have the required Ruby version
• Install gems using Bundler
• Create local copies of .env and database.yml
• Create, migrate, and seed the database

Run it!

1. Run bin/rake test to make sure everything works.
2. Run bin/rake test:system to run system (capybara) tests.
3. Run bin/rails s and bin/sidekiq to start the app and Sidekiq; alternatively, start both at once with heroku local.

Deployment

Ensure the following environment variables are set in the deployment environment:

• POSTMARK_API_KEY
• RACK_ENV
• RAILS_ENV
• REDIS_URL
• SECRET_KEY_BASE
• SIDEKIQ_WEB_PASSWORD
• SIDEKIQ_WEB_USERNAME

Optionally:

• RAILS_FORCE_SSL
• RAILS_HOSTNAME
• RAILS_LOG_TO_STDOUT
• RAILS_MAX_THREADS
• RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES
• WEB_CONCURRENCY

CODE TO CHECK USER STATE