jtx007 / Digital-Journal-Notes-API

digital journal app backend built with Ruby on Rails

Digital-Journal-Notes API

Deployed here: Digital-Journal-Notes

This is the backend for Digital-Journal-Notes (link for the frontend)

Built with:

• Ruby on Rails
• Postgresql
• JWT
• Rack-CORS
• Active Model Serializers

Requirements:

• Ruby version 2.5.1
• Rails version 5.2.1
• Postgres App (on local machine)

Getting Started:

• Turn on your Postgres app and initialize it to make sure it is running and ready to receive new databases
• Make sure you're in the root of the backend directory and run bundle install to install all gems and dependencies
• Next run rake db:create and rake db:migrate to create the database into postgress and run the migrations. At this point if you click into your postgres app you should see a new database is created
• Finally run rails s to boot up local server on your machine for the localized version of your frontend