Volition

Build status:

Self hosting HEROKU

Volition is designed with self hosting in mind. By using “Deploy to Heroku” button above, you can be up and running in a few minutes!

To update your deployed app with the lastest changes:

Clone this repo: git clone git@github.com:garrettqmartin8/volition.git
Run bin/update_heroku from the command line.
Enjoy your updated app!

Self hosting Ubuntu

Volition runs great on Ubuntu Server. Tested on Ubuntu 14.04 (YMMV)

Prerequisites for Ubuntu install:

Ruby 2.4.0 (install using rvm)

make sure rvm installed:
sudo apt-get install libgdbm-dev libncurses5-dev automake libtool bison libffi-dev
gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB
\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
then install pre-stuff for ruby:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev python-software-properties libffi-dev nodejs
rvm install 2.4.0
rvm use 2.4.0 --default
ruby -vshould be 2.4.0

PostgreSQL

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
edit the postgres config to trust local user connections by default
sudo nano /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/pg_hba.conf
edit the lines for local to be trust instead of peer or md5:

# Database administrative login by Unix domain socket
local   all             postgres                                trust

# TYPE  DATABASE        USER            ADDRESS                 METHOD

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all             all                                     trust

Post setup of Ruby & Postgres on Ubuntu Server

You can try just running ./bin/setup at this point as mentioned at the bottom of this readme, but I found I had to work through the following three gotchas before anything worked.

Edit config/database.yml and add in username: postgres and password: fields for development and production sections
install bundler gem: gem install bundler
config bundler to get pg to install properly: bundle config build.pg --with-pg-lib="/var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main"

Run on local port 3000 on Ubuntu

Simply rails -s

You can run this in tmux or daemonize this process using passenger or systemd

setup with NGINX reverse proxy

create a new NGINX vhost file in /etc/nginx/sites-available/, for example /etc/nginx/sites-available/volition

here is example volition file:

server {
    server_name do.jamescampbell.us;
    listen 80;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/do-access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/do-error.log;

    location / {
        proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   Host      $host;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header   Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header   Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
        proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:3000;
    }
 
}

and go to what you set in your server_name field and it should just work

Setting up reminders

To take advantage of the daily reflection reminders, you may need to do some extra setup:

SMS reminders

You’ll need to create a Twilio account and set three environment variables in the .env file:

TWILIO_SID
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN
TWILIO_SENDER_PHONE_NUMBER

Email reminders

You’ll need to set some SMTP environment variables in the .env file:

SMTP_ADDRESS
SMTP_DOMAIN
SMTP_PASSWORD
SMTP_USERNAME

Contributing

After you have cloned this repo, run this setup script to set up your machine with the necessary dependencies to run and test this app:

% ./bin/setup

It assumes you have a machine equipped with Ruby, Postgres, etc. If not, set up your machine with this script.

PRs are welcome!

MIT License

blvrd / volition