SpartaHack on Rails

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This is a guide for running a local copy of SpartaHack at http://localhost:3000

Once set up, only Postgres.app and the rails server need to be on to run the site

rails server

Installation (Mac OS X)

Install homebrew

Open terminal and run the following commands in order to install Command Line Tools and homebrew

xcode-select --install

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Install RVM

Open terminal and run the following command

\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash

Close and reopen terminal. Run the following commands

rvm install 2.2.1

rvm --default use 2.1.1

And then execute:

gem install bundle

Install Postgres

Run the following commands in terminal

brew install postgresql

gem install pg

Now go to http://postgresapp.com/ and install Postgress.app.

Run Postgres locally

Open the app and click on Open psql. A terminal window should pop up.

Run the following commands

CREATE ROLE "pguser" NOSUPERUSER NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE INHERIT LOGIN;

ALTER ROLE pguser WITH PASSWORD 'hello';

CREATE DATABASE dev ENCODING 'UTF8';

Postgres must be running in the background to run SpartaHack locally.

Setting your Environmental Variables

Set the following environmental variables:

export PROD_SECRET='YOUR PRODUCTION SECRET'

export PARSE_API_KEY='YOUR PARSE API KEY'

export PARSE_APP_ID='YOUR PARSE APP ID'

export MAILCHIMP_API_KEY='YOUR MAILCHIMP API KEY'

export MAILCHIMP_LIST_ID='YOUR MAILCHIMP LIST ID'

If you're a SpartaHack organizer, contact the Webmaster for the correct credentials.

Running SpartaHack locally

Clone Spartahack and cd into it.

Execute the command:

bundle

To run the SpartaHack locally execute

rails server

then navigate to http://localhost:3000

Installation (Linux)

To do.

Installation (Windows)

Is that a thing? To Do.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request