README

This is the USMA CS450 HomeWork4. The project is currently at about the end of Hartl Chapter 6 with some modifications for the current Ruby on Rails version.

Software versions

• Ruby 1.9.3p547 (2014-05-14 revision 45962) [x86_64-linux]

• Rails 4.1.6

• gem 2.4.1

• heroku-toolbelt/3.11.1 (x86_64-linux) ruby/1.9.3

Setup your development and test environment

• After cloneing you will need to configure the application for your

development environment.

bundle install --without production

• Then migrate any existing database schema.

bundle exec rake db:migrate

• Next run the test suite. It is is RSpec based. To run all existing test cases in the spec directory use:

bundle exec rspec spec

• You’ll want to setup your own remote repository on GitHub. Remove the current origin with

git remote rm origin

• Then create an empty repository on GitHub. Finally, add an origin nickname back in for your remote repository on GitHub.

Deployment into production environment

• You will need to setup your own instance of a heroku environment.

heroku create --stack cedar

• Precompile assets, them commit them to local git repo and remote git repo on GitHub.

rake assets:precompile
git add .
git commit -m "Precompile assets"
git push origin

• Deploy to your production environment on the heroku servers using:

git push heroku master

• If you need to perform a database migration on heroku you’ll need to use:

heroku run:detached rake db:migrate

• Then you can view your application with

heroku open