piesrtasty / SnapShot

A Photo Album Built in Backbone.js on Ruby on Rails 3.1

SnapShot

A photo album built on top of a Ruby on Rails (3.1) backend with a Backbone.js frontend.

Installation

Install Ruby (preferably through RVM) by entering the following in a terminal.

$ curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

After RVM installs, add the following to your bash profile to ensure RVM is loaded into every new shell session

[[ -s "/Users/{{ YOUR USERNAME }}/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "/Users/{{ YOUR USERNAME }}/.rvm/scripts/rvm"

Install Ruby 1.9.2.

rvm install ruby-1.9.2

Install Bundler (RubyGem)

gem install bundler

Quick Start

Inside of the applications directory install the gem bundle specified in the Gemfile.

bundle (Which is a shortcut for 'bundle install'

Populate the database with tables.

rake db:migrate

Start the server.

rails server