nedkamburov / Rails-Sports-Hub-Portal

A full-stack Sport Portal Hub built with Ruby on Rails

Rails Sports Hub Portal

A full-stack Sport Portal Hub built with Ruby on Rails

Access live demo at https://sportshub-6m4y.onrender.com

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Link to the Sports Hub Requirements and Architecture

Technologies:

• Ruby on Rails
• JavaScript (Stimulus)
• PostgreSQL

Main features:

1. Home page with sports articles
   • Various categories, subcategories and teams
   • Articles with rich content
   • Comments on the articles with sorting and filtering options, likes and dislikes
   • Newsletter
   • Admin Dashboard to manage all content
2. Different types of users
3. Admin panel
4. Mailing service

Local Installation instructions

Requirements:
ruby, rails, postgres, gem, image-magick

Initialise Postgres Database:

rails db:create
rails db:setup

Install the gems and fire up the server:

bundle install
rails server

Render Deployment instructions

1. Load the blueprint on Render and wait for it initialise the database and the web app.
2. You will have to provide the rails master key in the environment variables.
3. Use this guide to reset the secret and the public master key https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails-master-key-and-per-environment-init/82615/2
4. The public one is committed to the repo but the secret one needs to match it and be set in RAILS_MASTER_KEY environment variable in the render web app.
5. The build should proceed, executing all the commands from ./bin/render-build.sh

Other CLI functionalities

Send an email newsletter:
rake weekly_newsletter_email

Run tests:

rspec
bundle exec cucumber

Extras

Generate a PDF (admins only) with all categories hierarchy by visiting localhost/admin.pdf