This Ruby on Rails "RoR" application lets people in an organization to give feedback and rank it using a "thumbs up" approach.
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Ruby 3.2.3
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Ruby on Rails 7.1.3.2 (upgraded & tested on 2024-04-07)
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SQLite3
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jQuery JavaScript library 3.3.1
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Bootstrap CSS for styling 4.2.1
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Devise gem for authentication
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will_paginate gem to handle split rows returned across pages
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acts_as_votable gem to up vote a feedback item
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3 relational tables: users, posts, votes
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use an image or
rbenvwith with Ruby 3.2.3 -
install bundler gem then bundle install the gems specified in the gem file
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install the Ruby gems ( they are not in my git to save space ): bundle install
(the following 2 steps may be needed if you get database errors when launching the rails app)
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run the database migrations: rails db:migrate RAILS_ENV=development
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run the seed data including login user names: rails db:seed
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launch the app from the app folder: rails s -p 3000 -b 0.0.0.0
( the binding lets you access the app outside your localhost )
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If running in a container, make sure you specify the ports in the docker run to setup port forwarding )
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log in with the username [email protected] and password of password
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API call #1 to demo in a browser: http://(your app host name)/api/get_posts_count.json
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API call #2 to demo in a browser: http://(your app host name)/api/get_posts.json?term=
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start debugger command: rdebug-ide --host 0.0.0.0 --port 1234 --dispatcher-port 1234 -- bin/rails s
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create a launch.json in VS Code that listens for r-debug
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make a breakpoint and start the debugger in VS Code, go to the app's route in a browser where the breakpoint is set, and it should break