Wednesday Worlds

This is the Rails web application that runs https://wednesdayworlds.org

Download the source

$ git clone git://github.com/anolson/wednesday_worlds.git

Getting Started

$ cd wednesday_worlds
$ bin/setup

Deploy to Heroku

Staging

$ heroku container:push web --app wednesdayworlds-staging
$ heroku container:release web --app  wednesdayworlds-staging

Production

$ heroku container:push web --app wednesdayworlds
$ heroku container:release web --app wednesdayworlds

Generate events

$ heroku run "bin/rake events:generate[YYYY-MM-DD]" --app=wednesdayworlds

Docker

Setup

$ cp .env-sample .env
$ docker compose build --pull web

Start the server

$ docker compose up web

Console

$ docker compose run --rm web bin/rails c

Install gems

$ docker compose run --rm web bundle install

Update gems

$ docker compose run --rm web bundle update rails

Run tests

$ docker compose run --rm test bin/rails spec

Volumes

Reset docker volumes (keep in mind this will remove all postgres data and bundled gems)

$ docker compose down --volumes

Litestream config

STORAGE_MODE=replication
LITESTREAM_REPLICA_URL=s3://wednesdayworlds/data/development.sqlite3
LITESTREAM_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<access_key_id>
LITESTREAM_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<secret_access_key>
LITESTREAM_DATA_PATH=/data/db/development.sqlite3

STORAGE_MODE config

• local – DB only stored locally in db – useful for local development.
• restore_only – DB restored from S3 (without replication) – useful if you need to replicate data from another host.
• replication – DB restored from S3 (with replication)

Notes:

• Bundler needs to be configured with env vars (on Heroku)
• Make sure that assets are compiled for production
• Make sure to set RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES=true

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/container-registry-and-runtime

License

Code is licensed under the MIT License; site content (copy, ride/route descriptions) is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Copyright © 2010-2026 Wednesday Worlds.