Microblog

A full-stack microblog built using Ruby on Rails and AngularJS, loosely inspired by the RoR tutorial by Michael Hartl.

Project structure

Ruby API

The API, developed using Ruby on Rails, is defined in api/ where the interesting folders and files mainly are:
api/app/controllers
api/app/models
api/app/views
api/db/schema.rb
api/test/controllers
api/test/models

AngularJS single-page app

The interface can be found in public/ and is a single-page app in AngularJS comunicating with the API. The most interesting folders are:
public/app/scripts/controllers
public/app/scripts/services
public/app/styles
public/app/views

Run Ruby server locally

Make sure to have installed

• ruby 3.2.0 (or higher)
• rails 5.0.0 (or higher)

Install dependencies

cd api/
bundle install

Create db and migrate schema

rake db:create
rake db:migrate

Add a secret (for Rails > 4)

Generate a random secret key value:
bundle exec rake secret
Copy the generated value and put it in config/initializers/secret_token.rb:
Microblog::Application.config.secret_key_base = 'your-secret'

Run server

rails s

Run node.js server locally

Make sure to have installed

• node
• npm
• yo
• grunt
• bower
• compass (gem install compass)

Install dependencies

cd public/
npm install
bower update

Run server

grunt serve If needed add (--force)

Browse

http://localhost:9000/ will automatically be opened in your default browser