Dimanaux / rails-nanoblogs

A web application for micro-blogging on Ruby on Rails

README

• Ruby version - 2.5.1

• System dependencies - Postgresql 10+

• Database creation

  1. Install PostgreSQL
  2. Create user Nanoblogs with password Nanoblogs
  3. Create databases Nanoblogs_development, Nanoblogs and Nanoblogs_test

• Deployment instructions

  • run $ rails server

Conclusions (how to create rails app from scratch):

1. $ apt install ruby-dev
2. $ apt install postgresql-common postgresql-contrib
3. $ gem install pg
4. $ gem install bundler
5. $ gem install rails
6. check logs to see which libraries are missing
7. install them (e.g. apt install libpq-dev) and try again
8. $ rails new superblog -d=postgresql
9. goto 6 and 7
10. add "gem 'devise'" to Gemfile
11. $ bundle install # in root directory
12. $ rails generate devise:install
13. goto 6 and 7: requires nodejs ($ apt install -y nodejs # maybe you need to add ppa)
14. $ rails generate devise:install
15. $ rails generate devise User
16. $ sudo -u postgres createuser --interactive -P -l # create user for db
17. $ sudo -u postgres createdb weblog # create database
18. also create weblog_test, weblog_development
19. databases in config/database.yml: add usernames, passwords, databases
20. add line "local all weblog md5" to /etc/postgresql/11/main/pg_hba.conf
21. $ rails db:migrate
22. $ rails generate scaffold Post content:text view_count:integer
23. $ rails generate model Comment content:text
24. edit migration files at db/migrate/*, models files at app/models/*
25. edit controlllers to add basic functionality
26. edit pages to make them look pretty