The prices of textbook used in Universities had skyrocketed in the 10-15 years. Most of the textbooks cost over $150 when it is new, even over $200 in some cases. It would be nice to have a way that help the student to buy or exchange textbook used in our universities without the cost of the middleman (e.g. Amazon).
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Make sure Ruby, Rails is installed. (Linux or Mac Preferred) (click here for general installation instructions.)
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Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/nickschiffer/papercut.git
cd papercut-
Obtain a Google Maps API Key from here.
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Create a config/application.yml file and paste in the following text (substituting your API Key).
development:
MAPS_API_KEY: "[YOUR_KEY_HERE]"- Setup the project and test that the server starts succesfully
# Install gem dependencies
bundle install --without production
# If you're on linux you may need to do the following to increase your number of watchers
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p
# Migrate and reset the databse
rails db:migrate
rails db:reset
rails s- Navigate to http://localhost:3000/