Possession

Playground to learn Ruby and Rails better. Right now the app doesn’t do much at all. The idea is to create a simple app to POSSE, Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.

Requirements

• Ruby (version as specified in .ruby-version)
• PostgreSQL (brew install postgresql)

Installation

gem install bundler
rbenv rehash
bundle

Add a file called .env in the root directory of the application.

# Super secret key that is used to encrypt database records
# check what is set in production if you need to be able to decrypt production data
ENCRYPTION_KEY=somesecret
DEVELOPMENT_DATABASE=possession_development
TEST_DATABASE=possession_test
DATABASE_USERNAME=username # your local postgres db user
DATABASE_PASSWORD=password # your local postgres db password
RACK_ENV=development
PORT=3000
BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME=yourusername
BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD=yourpassword

Create the databases by running:

bundle exec rake db:create:all

Now run the migrations:

bundle exec rake db:migrate

Now you’re good to go, run the server:

bundle exec rails s

Ready for Heroku

The app is ready to deploy to Heroku. Read about how to get started

Goals

• Follow POSSE syndication model and other indie web principles (IndieWebify.me).
• A blog where posts are syndicated to Medium.
• A links, quotes and books section.
• Posts and links are taggable.
• Tweets are published and syndicated to Twitter.
• Reverse syndicate starred/read later items on Medium, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, Pinboard, Feedbin and Instapaper.

Todo

• Basic authentication.
• Medium like editor
• RSS feed.
• OpenGraph meta tags.
• Use HTTPS.