Startup Guide

Get your environment set up

Install rbenv (or rvm but we're assuming rbenv for the sake of the guide)
Run ruby-build (bundled with rbenv)
Initialize rbenv: rbenv init then follow the directions it outputs. It will look something like:

    # Load rbenv automatically by appending
    # the following to ~/.zshrc:

    eval "$(rbenv init -)"

brew tap mongodb/brew
brew install mongodb-community

You can choose to run mongodb as a background service with brew services start mongodb-community

Make the database directory: sudo mkdir -p /data/db && sudo chown -R `id -un` /data/db
Install yarn: npm install -g yarn (this assumes you have node and npm installed)
Install the node packages: yarn
Install the ruby packages: bundle install
Start the mongodb database: mongod. If you ran mongodb through brew services, you can skip this step.
In a separate shell instance, create and setup the database: rake db:setup
Start the rails server: rails s, or start rails, guard, and webpack-dev-server in one instance: foreman start -p 3000
If you don't like foreman's output (for example, it doesn't play nice with pry...) consider running rails s, ./bin/webpack-dev-server, and bundle exec guard in separate instances.

Make sure your packages are updated: yarn and bundle install
Start the mongodb database: mongod. you can skip this if you have mongodb running as a background service (brew services start mongodb)
Start the rails server: rails s, or start rails, guard, and webpack-dev-server in one instance: foreman start -p 3000
If you don't like foreman's output (for example, it doesn't play nice with pry...) consider running rails s, ./bin/webpack-dev-server, and bundle exec guard in separate instances

Seeding the database automatically adds a user to the system in case you want to skip profile set up. the credentials are:

email: devuser@bedpost.me

password: password