amaia / rubypair

A website setup to find people to pair program with!

Overview

This is an idea that came up during a break at a daylong session at Lone Star Ruby Conference and I quick registered the domain name. I thought it would be fun to find people who are willing to pair program in your area. So this is this start of such a project. Hopefully I can find others to help me with it and get it going (and keep me on it).

Plan:

• Page where Developers can login and make a profile, including the following:
  • twitter, linked in profiles, github
  • areas of code you like (tests, views, database, etc)
  • city, state (optional)
  • prefer in-person, online pair programming, or either
  • link to coderwall
• Comment on profile (talk positively how it was to pair with that person)

Future:

• Maybe a reward system (stars? rubyies?) that people can award someone who was helpful. Maybe sponsors can offer prizes.

Setting up development environment

1. Get a Github account and press Fork
2. Clone your repo git clone [e-mail]:username/rubypair.git
3. Prepare

    cd rubypair
    gem install bundler
    bundle install
    cp config/app_config.yml.example config/app_config.yml
  

4. Register your app with Github to make authentication work

• Main URL for development may vary, mine is http://localhost:3000 since I just use Webrick
• Callback URL is http://localhost:3000/auth/github/callback adjust your accordingly.
• Update your config/app_config.yml with values supplied from Github's OAUTH app registration

5. Install MongoDB. We recommend using homebrew