arthurmde / rottenpotatoes-rails-intro

RottenPotatoes app skeleton for saasbook/hw-rails-intro

RottenPotatoes demo app: getting started

This app is associated with the free online course and (non-free) ebook Engineering Software as a Service.

To get started:

0. Setup a Cloud9 environment for the course.

1. Fork this repository to your own GitHub account, using the "Fork" button in the upper right corner of this page. It's fine to make the forked copy public.

2. In your Cloud9 terminal, type the following command to clone your copy of the repository to your development workspace:

git clone [e-mail]:YourGithubUsername/rottenpotatoes-rails-intro.git

0. Then cd rottenpotatoes-rails-intro to change to the app's directory.

1. Run the command bundle install --without production to make sure all the gems (libraries) used by the app are in place.

2. Run bundle exec rake db:setup to create the initial database.

3. Run rails server -p $PORT -b $IP to start the app. Cloud9 will pop up a window showing the URL to visit in your browser to interact with the running app.