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Dev Setup

Ruby and Rails

You'll need to install Rails 5.2+. Installation is notorious for being troublesome sometimes. You can try this guide first and see how well it works for you. You should also use Ruby 2.4.1+.

For reference I'm using Rails 5.2.2 and Ruby 2.4.1p111.

Database

We're using PostgresQL as our database. They have their own app to manage running local DB server, but we'll use Homebrew to start and stop the service.

brew install postgresql

If the service doesn't start automatically, run this to start the service.

brew services start postgresql

It will continuously run in the background to enable connections to your database until you stop it with brew services stop postgresql.

Environment

Install our Ruby gems with:

bundle install

If you don't have yarn installed on your system (it's a replacement for npm), you can probably install it using brew:

brew install yarn

Then install our node_modules with:

yarn install

You may have installed the most recent version of webpack-dev-server at this step, but it has a compile bug, which can be fixed by downgrading the server to this version:

yarn upgrade webpack-dev-server@^2.11.1 -D

Running Locally

Start the server with this command:

yarn start

License

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