mic-css / excusatron

Helping you say what you really mean through a lie since 2016

Excusatron

Sometimes you just need a good excuse. Chronically late? Awkward breakup? Really don't want to go to that party? Don't hurt someone's feelings by ghosting! Excusatron is here to help with brilliant excuses for every occasion.

Objectives

Excusatron was built for the Makers Academy Makerthon, a three-day hackathon to build and showcase interesting and often funny projects. We chose to tackle AngularJS on top of Rails to build a lightweight but extensible stack. WARNING: the project was not TDD'd due to time constraints and unforeseen complications with getting Angular and Rails to play nice 😅

Team

• Mic Cassano
• Henry "Harry" Gordon
• Constantin Kalinin
• Jeremy Barrass

Technologies

• Ruby on Rails
• AngularJS
• Testing frameworks: RSpec, Karma, Protractor

Instructions

Clone this repo and make some of your own excuses!

$ git clone https://github.com/mic-css/excusatron.git
$ cd excusatron

Build

From the root directory, run:

• bundle to install and update any Gem dependencies
• npm install to install any front-end dependencies. This will automatically run bower install too

Run

To start the app make sure you have successfully run the above build scripts, then:

• Run rails s
• Navigate to localhost:3000

Test

Make sure you've run the install scripts above, as well as npm run update-webdriver should you want to run the feature tests. Then, run:

• rspec for back-end tests
• npm run test for front-end tests
• npm run protractor for feature tests. You will need to run an instance of the server and webdriver-manager start in separate terminal panes.