Streak on Rails (SoR) was created by a developer with a love of big data and sports. The application emulates a professional application called Streak for the Cash by ESPN. SFTC is a fantasy sports game where contestants try to consecutively select the winners of sports propositions (props) and build the longest streak of the month. The highest streak at the end of the month wins $25,000.
SoR is not a sportsbetting application, but merely a portal for fun, proposition-based picking (sports or otherwise). The application is intended to be a playground for web development and was created and adapted to fulfill the portfolio requirements of Flatiron School's Fullstack Web Development program.
After forking or cloning the repo, cd into the project directory and run bundle install in the command line. Create a database using rails db:create followed by rails db:migrate and rails db:seed to create seed data. The seed command may take a minute as the file generates 30 users and scrapes sports prop data from ESPN and simulates picks for each of the users.
After the seed file has generated the data, start a Rails server in the terminal with rails s and open localhost:3000 in a browser. The root of the application should open with a front-facing welcome and presentation of the sports props. 3rd party login is possible through Google using OAuth, but all users' accounts created by the seed data can be logged into by looking up the seeded user's username on the Leaderboard and using the password 1234567890.
SoR was created with an admin user, who's password is also 1234567890. Using the admin login, the user can create prop boards, create props, score (grade) the winners of props, and perform other administrator duties of the application.
There can be an extensive amount of "feature creep" in this application. Many initial features were built out to meet the minimum project requirements and then abandoned or changed when "creep" set in. Pull requests against the developer's code are welcomed if there are features that can be implemented or made better. The CRUD nature of the project was intended to be met satisfactorily, but applications such as SoR should protect the scope with which an outside "do-badder" can access the resources that have been brought together by a developer.
https://github.com/veloblank/silver-chainsaw/blob/master/project-spec.md
The project is usable in its current form on its master branch. It can be cloned or forked to a local machine. Run bundle install to update all gems, create and seed a database after migrating and use rails s to start a local server. The application can be accessed at its root '/'.
Bug reports and contributions via raised issues and pull requests are welcomed on GitHub at https://github.com/veloblank/silver-chainsaw. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to a Contributor Covenant code of conduct.
This project is not intended to promote wagering on the outcomes of sports or other events. It is intended to be an educational project for object-oriented programming as well as MVC application development. Propositions in the application, while sometimes based on real events and real data, are not intended to encourage wagering on those events, nor sportsbetting in general.
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