Martini-Example

System dependencies

Installing Go

• Install Go brew install go

• Setup your Go environment:

  export GOPATH=<Your Go working directory here>
  export PATH="$PATH:$GOPATH/bin"
  

Installing Postgres

• Install Postgres brew install postgres

  Alternatively, use postgres app.

Configuration

• Create the database createdb example_app_dev

• Populate it using the example db/seeds.sql file: psql -d example_app_dev < db/seeds.sql

• Create .env file:

  DATABASE_URL="dbname=example_app_dev sslmode=disable"
  API_USERNAME=<username>
  API_PASSWORD=<password>
  

  See lib/pq docs to see more details about connection parameters

• Run go get to install app dependencies

• Run app go run main.go

Tests

None 😢

Deployment

Deployment instructions for heroku.

Setup

• Make sure to have the heroku toolbelt installed.

• Then run:

  heroku create <app-name> -b https://github.com/kr/heroku-buildpack-go.git

• Add the heroku git repository to your git remotes

• Install Godep to manage app dependencies by running: go get github.com/tools/godep

Before pushing

• Every time that you add a new a dependency, make sure run godep save and add changed files inside Godeps directory.

Release

• git push <heroku-remote> or git push <heroku-remote> <feature-branch>:master