IMDB for online courses

Allcours.es — independent online courses database with ratings, reviews and personal course information.
v. 0.1.0, not released yet

Open source

You can make a difference by contributing to this project and spreading the word.

Developer — follow the Setup guide and send us your pull-requests.
Not developer — welcome to share your ideas and thoughts on hi@allcours.es

License
Any commercial use of the code or any part of it aside of the allcours.es website should be explicitely approved by the founders Michael Butlitsky (@aristofun) and Vadim Venediktov (@installero).

TODO

A bunch of things to implement for the release, before talking roadmaps:

• Invisible recaptcha on signup & adding new course
• Fetch course info using course URL from popular providers
• Complete course CRUD
• Complete Review CRUD
• Review Lists in user profile, in index page, on the course page
• Course Lists by genre, in user profile ("courses he had taken") with sorting by date, by rating
• Add autocontent generator to dev using Faker gem
• Create privacy policy page to enable Facebook log in (in dev mode now)
• Restrict users to update their own profile only (every one can update anybody's profile now)
• Index page filled with recently added courses and reviews
• Log in using Google, Github
• Show users' ratings on course page, course partial etc.
• customize devise form messages howto
• Personal course notes feature (MD private richtext area)
• Configure email notifications (to confirm users, for example)
• Log in using Facebook
• Default user avatars
• Favicon

Setup guide

This is Rails 5, ruby 2.4.1, Postgres 9.6, Capistrano 3, nginx-passenger web application living at Allcours.es. Master branch is deployed by product owners (@installero, @aristofun) on a regular basis.

1. Ready

• Install and setup Postgres 9.6 locally.
• Ruby 2.4.1 using RBENV/RVM is recommended.

2. Steady

Set up your local Postgres DB. Beware of collation and ctype, we use UTF8 and en_US.UTF-8

For example:

> psql
CREATE USER username_for_allcourses WITH PASSWORD '<your password>' CREATEDB REPLICATION CONNECTION LIMIT 10;
CREATE DATABASE db_name_for_dev WITH LC_COLLATE='en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE='en_US.UTF-8' ENCODING=UTF8 OWNER=username_for_allcourses;
CREATE DATABASE db_name_for_test WITH LC_COLLATE='en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE='en_US.UTF-8' ENCODING=UTF8 OWNER=username_for_allcourses;

Check connection:

psql -h localhost -U <username_for_allcourses> -W <db_name_for_(dev|test)>

3. Go!

• Download the code (fork/clone repo)
• bundle install
• bundle exec rails db:migrate
• Configure your copy of config/database.yml according to your Postgres configuration
• Configure your copy of config/secrets.yml according to secrets.example.yml

Now you can run it locally bundle exec rails s. Specs bundle exec rspec

Devlog

This chapter to be erased after release

• App created

  rails new allcourses -T --skip-spring --skip-turbolinks
  

• pushed to bitbucket
• added bootstrap 4: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-rubygem
• added rspec: https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails
• added guard: https://github.com/guard/guard https://github.com/guard/guard-rspec
• Provider + Course models added
• DB setup CREATE USER allcourses WITH PASSWORD '*' CREATEDB REPLICATION CONNECTION LIMIT 10; rails db:create rails db:migrate rails db:test:prepare
• Add devise User rails g devise:install rails db:migrate rails g devise User rails db:migrate rails g devise:views:bootstrapped (https://github.com/king601/devise-bootstrapped)
• Add letter_opener
• Provider validations & specs (+ shoulda matcher)
• Course validations
• Add Review model
• Add CommonMarker to Review
• Add carrierwave picture to Course https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave