This is an application for keeping track of birdwatching activities and sharing them with the world. It allows to log bird observations, place them on the map, attach images, generate life-, year- or region lists, and blog about birds and birding.

Quails is a collective name for several groups of mid-sized hen-like birds. The reference species is the Old World Common Quail Coturnix coturnix. Moreover, it rhymes with Rails, the name of the web framework.

In fact, 'rails' is a bird name too. It refers to the members of the Rallidae family, associated mostly with wetlands.

Compatible with Ruby >= 3. See .tool-versions for the current development version.

Some queries are PostgreSQL-specific.

Redis is used in production for caching.

For a quick demo in Docker, run:

docker compose up --build

In a new terminal run the migrations:

docker compose exec web bin/rake db:migrate

Seed the DB:

docker compose exec web bin/rake db:seed

The app will be available at http:https://localhost:3005.

Login credentials: username admin, password admin.

Database is exposed on port 5499.

Copyright (c) 2007–2024 Vitalii Khustochka