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YEGRB - Edmonton's Ruby Meetup

This site is dedicated to all things ruby in the Edmonton area. Future features will include user accounts, a mailing list, and a job board.

Getting Started

  1. Clone this repository with git clone [email protected]:yegrb/yegrb.com.git
  2. Use rbenv or RVM to install correct version of Ruby (see .ruby-version)
  3. Make sure to have Postgres installed and configured on system (See below for Mac OSX instructions)
  4. Copy .env.example and rename it .env.
  5. Fill .env environment variables with the administrator details.
  6. Run bundle install to install gems
  7. Run bin/rails db:setup to create databases
  8. Run bin/rails db:seed to create administrator account
  9. You can optionally run bin/rails db:fill to fill the site with hilarious fake data.
  10. Create a new branch with git checkout -b new_branch
  11. Make modifications and push code with:
git add .
git commit -m 'Describe your changes'
git push
  1. And open up a pull request on GitHub!

Enable caching in development

The Meetup API is slow when a lot of separate requests are made, so in-memory caching is used. It is turned on in production automatically but will need to be toggled on in development using rails dev:cache if you want to utilize it.

Installing Postgresql on Mac OSX

First, you need to remove previous versions of PostgreSQL

brew uninstall --force postgresql

Next up, delete all Postgres files

rm -rf /usr/local/var/postgres

Install Postgres with homebrew

brew install postgres

Fire up new PostgreSQL server

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start

Create Database

initdb /usr/local/var/postgres

Contact

Drop us a line at: [email protected]