Open Plaques

The website behind Open Plaques

Prerequisites

This project requires:

• Ruby (version as specified in the Gemfile)
• Postgres
• Bundler (installable with gem install bundler)

Installation

• Copy example.env to .env – this file is used for configuring environment variables.
• Add a random value for SECRET_KEY_BASE in the .env file. You can generate this by running bundle exec rake secret on the command line.
• Copy database.example.yml to database.yml.
• Create two databases for development and testing, and specify these in the database.yml file.
• Run bundle install to install Gem dependencies.
• Run bundle exec rake db:setup to setup the database.

Running the site

This should just be a case of running foreman start on the command line. The output will tell you which URL you can view it at. Typically this will be http://localhost:5000.

Keeping the database schema up-to-date

When changes to the database schema are required (which you will be warned about), you can make these changes by running bundle exec rake db:migrate.

Running the tests

You can run the tests (which check that the code does what we expect it to do) by running bundle exec rspec.

If you see 0 failures then everything is ok.

Local development database

• Run a backup with 'heroku pg:backups public-url --app open-plaques-beta'
• Get the url 'heroku pg:backups public-url --app open-plaques-beta'
• and download it
• create a new empty database
• restore it into postgres (I use the pgAdmin3 graphical tool)