isabelxklee / ember-collective-backend

Rails API for Ember Collective 🛠

Ember Collective Backend 🔥

This is the Ruby on Rails API for the Ember Collective. Ember Collective is an educational resource for anti-racism and supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. You can browse non-profit organizations to support, interact with the Police Brutality Tracker, and send donation match challenges to other users.

• Website
• Link to frontend
• Project tracker

Getting Started

To get started, you will need Ruby on Rails and Postgres.

1. Install Homebrew

   $ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
   

2. Install Ruby

   $ brew install ruby
   

3. Install Rails

   $ gem install rails
   

4. Install PostgreSQL

   $ brew install postgresql
   

Downloading this project

1. Clone the repo and cd into the folder

2. Bundle Install

   $ bundle install
   

3. Create migrations, migrate and seed:

   $ rails db:create
   $ rails db:migrate
   $ rails db:seed    
   

4. Last step, launch the rails server!

   $ rails s
   

Live demo

https://embercollective.org