An open-source app which helps you remember people you'd normally forget. See the live version at memamug.com.

This app was built to demonstrate how to write a simple web-app, without resorting to a cliché to-do list. I'll be writing a number of tutorials to explain how to build this app, from creating the initial directory structure to deploying it live. Follow @james_k_nelson to keep updated.

This server is built with rails-api, so the installation process mostly follows that for a standard rails application, with a few differences:

• It uses the uuid-ossp PostgreSQL extension. Add this by typing create extension "uuid-ossp"; into psql once your database is setup.
• You'll need to rename .env-example to .env and add your S3 and Facebook Login API keys.env`

Other than that, you can just follow the usual rails setup process:

• Setup your config/database.yml
• Run rake db:migrate

Once setup, install foreman and mailcatcher gems:

gem install foreman mailcatcher

Then start your server with

mailcatcher
foreman start

Then move on to getting memamug-client working, so you can use it!

Need more specific details? I'll be writing more soon. Follow @james_k_nelson to stay up to date.