mvsic

Initial setup

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/jamesfzhang/mvsic.git

2. Install gems

bundle install

3. Setup Postgres

Download and install Postgres.app

Add export PGHOST=localhost to ~/.bash_profile then source ~/.bash_profile

4. Setup Postgres role

In terminal, open up psql: psql then run create role mvsic with createdb login password 'password'

5. Create, migrate, and seed databases

bundle exec rake db:create

bundle exec rake db:migrate

bundle exec rake db:seed

6. Set up .env file at root

touch .env

Ask James for Mailchimp's API key and add it like so to .env:

MAILCHIMP_API_KEY: '123456'

7. Start redis

If you don't have redis, install it first via homebrew

brew install redis

Once it's installed, start it

redis-server &

8. Start server

bundle exec rails s

Use production database dump

Capture database backup

heroku pgbackups:capture

Download it

curl -o latest.dump heroku pgbackups:url``

Run this and replace 'jameszhang' with your username

pg_restore --verbose --clean --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U jameszhang -d mvsic_development latest.dump