Le Wagon

Dependencies

You need Postgresql and Redis running on your computer. You also need ImageMagick

Setup

After cloning the project, run:

bundle install
bin/rails db:create db:schema:load

Then ask for the ENV variables below before starting your bin/rails s server.

Configuration

The app configuration lies in config/application.yml and is not versionned by git (for security reasons). If you've just cloned this repo, ask a colleague for his application.yml file over a secure channel.

The bare minimum variables you need to start the website are:

# config/application.yml
ALUMNI_WWW_SHARED_SECRET: "ask_for_it"
ALUMNI_WWW_ENCRYPTING_KEY: "ask_for_it"
CLOUDINARY_URL: "ask_for_it"

Create a new post

To create a new blog post file, you run this command:

rails post:create

Cache

You can run this in development to bypass the API cache.

$ DISABLE_CACHE=true rails s

API Development

You can work with development API by launching a rails s -p 5000 of lewagon/alumni in another terminal tab, then launch the www rails app with:

ALUMNI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:5000/api/v1 DISABLE_CACHE=true rails s

Linkedin Token

The token lasts 2 months. To generate it, launch a rails c locally then:

oauth = LinkedIn::OAuth2.new; puts oauth.auth_code_url # Go to this URL
code = "WHAT YOU GOT FROM THE URL"
l_token = oauth.get_access_token(code); puts l_token.token
puts "will expire on #{Date.strptime(l_token.expires_at.to_s, '%s')}. You may want to add this date to the calendar"