Instatalk

Ruby on Rails application for instant messaging in public rooms using Hotwire.

Create a room and communicate with people.

Run

For the application to work, you will need the Ruby and Node languages installed. It is also necessary to have Redis and PostgreSQL databases.

The application is built on Ruby on Rails 7.0.4 and Ruby 3.1.2.

Before runing the application, run the commands from the project folder:

$ bundle
$ rails db:create
$ rails db:migrate
$ yarn build
$ yarn build:css

And run the app:

$ rails s

The application will be available at http://localhost:3000/.

Database in production

In the production environment, you must specify the database login and password in the environment variables DATABASE_USERNAME and DATABASE_PASSWORD or specify explicitly in config/database.yml:

production:
  <<: *default
  database: instatalk_production
  username: #Your database username
  password: #Your database password