Yes Slash No
Use Yes Slash No to, quickly, knock up a website that answers a question in the form of Is It Christmas, Is It Thanksgiving Yet?, Yes, Margaret Thatcher is dead, and Is Julia Gillard Still Prime Minister?. Classy.
Installation
Firstly, make sure you've installed Ruby. Also, install the Heroku Toolbelt as it includes Foreman for running Procfile-based applications.
Then in terminal, clone me:
$ git clone git@github.com:/kripy/yes-slash-no yes-slash-no
$ cd yes-slash-no
You'll need to create an .env file in the root directory of the project for storing a single environment variable (more about this later). The file should look like this:
YSN_ROUTE=switch
Now fire it up:
$ foreman start
Open up a browser at http://localhost:5000/: now you're cooking! Visit http://localhost:5000/switch to change the website from YES to NO. Visit http://localhost:5000/ to see your change.
The reason for this switch is simple: it allows you to flick it over without having to redeploy. But please, do not leave the route as switch else users will be able to switch the website back and forth. My suggestion is to generate a UUID, update your .env file (as well as the Heroku envoironment variable below), and email the URL to yourself for safe keeping. That way you can switch the website over from the comfort of your favourite email client.
Deployment
If you don't already have one, sign up for a Heroku account. Everything you need to know and do to deploy is in Getting Started with Ruby on Heroku.
In terminal, cd into your app:
$ cd yes-slash-no
$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "init"
$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master
You'll need to add the environment variable. I've left it as switch for the purpose of my documentation.
$ heroku config:set YSN_ROUTE=switch
$ heroku open
Say hello to yes / no. Now all you need is to set up a custom domain and away you go.
MIT LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2013 Arturo Escartin
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