nulty / fixer_io_lucky

Web App to convert currencies using the Fixer.io API

fixer_io_lucky

Lucky and Crystal

Setting up the project

1. Install required dependencies
2. Run script/setup
3. Run lucky dev to start the app

Learning Lucky

Lucky uses the Crystal programming language. You can learn about Lucky from the Lucky Guides.

Docker

Build in Docker

Base image is created from this repo nulty/docker-lucky docker build --build-arg DB_PASSWORD=YOUR_PASSWORD -t YOUR_DOCKER_TAG .

Run in Docker

Running the app from a docker container is something I'll look into in the future

CircleCI

Configuration is found in .circleci/config.yml

We use a custom docker image iainmcnulty/lucky which is based off crystallang/crystal:0.30.1 but which has been modified to add node 10.16, postgresql-9.6 and also installed yarn. We need yarn to build the assets in the lucky application.

To make changes to the ci config, you will probably want to install the circleci commandline tool which allows you to build the container and run the config locally.

circleci build .

TODO

• Use docker compose to attach an external postgres container
• Get the app running in a container exposing ports to the host
  • libevent 2.1 not available in the base image containter (Xenial) - upgrade