galopeian1 / ror-blog

Sample blog built with Ruby on Rails

What is this?

This repo contains a sample blog built with Ruby on Rails. There are instructions below to get the app working in both development and production environments.

Requirements

1. Articles

• Unauthenticated users can view articles
• Admins can create, edit, delete, and view articles
• Article resources has title, blurb (summary of main content), body, tags, and comments

2. Tags

• Tags have many-to-many relationship with articles
• Can display list of tags
• Can display list of articles for a given tag

3. Comments

• Unauthenticated users can create and view comments
• Admins can create, view, and delete comments
• Comments are limited to five per article to avoid spamming

4. Data

• Article and tag data can be seeded using a database seeder

5. Assets

• SASS is compiled into CSS and serverd to the user
• Coffee script is compiled into JS and served to the user

6. Production

• The code can run in a production environment using Nginx, Unicorn, and Linux
• Code can be deployed via Capistrano
• All routes are sent via SSL

Development Server

To get a development version of the app running follow the steps below:

1. Clone the repository
2. Run "rails server"
3. Run "rake db:seed"

Production Server

To get a development version of the app running follow the steps below:

1. Log onto Digital ocean and spin up a server with Ubuntu 14.04 x 64
2. Install Ruby and rbenv according to this tutorial
3. Configure the server with Unicorn and Nginx according to this tutorial

• The only divergence from the tutorial is that you need to point the root in your Nginx configuration to "/public/current" instead of "/public" for Capistrano

4. Follow this tutorial to get SSL working with LetsEncrypt
5. Make sure that you have SECRET_KEY_BASE set and RAILS_ENV=production in your .rbenv-vars file in the root of the app
6. Change the server settings in the "/config/deploy/production.rb" file to your server's IP and a user with sudo capability
7. Run "bundle exec cap production deploy:inital"
8. SSH into your server and run "rake db:seed"
9. Navigate to your server's IP in the browser to use the blog app!