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##Installation Dependencies

This application requires these additional services to be installed beforehand:

  • Sidekiq
  • PostgreSQL with the HStore extension
  • Redis
  • Memcached

Seeding and Recreating the Database

The application assumes that at least one Challenge is created before running. This may be changed in a future release, but without that entity, the application will not start.

In order to initialize the database, use rake db:recreate.

Running the Test Suite

bundle exec rspec

database.yml configuration

You will require a .yml file to live in config/database.yml. For local deployment, you only require a development and test section. For deployments to production, you will require a production section as well.

A sample:

development:
  adapter: <DB_ADAPTER>
  database: <DB_NAME>
  username: <DB_USERNAME>
  password: <DB_PASSWORD>
  host: <DB_HOST> (locally can be localhost)

test:
  adapter: <DB_ADAPTER>
  database: <DB_NAME>_test
  username: <DB_USERNAME>
  password: <DB_PASSWORD>
  host: localhost

.env configuration

You will require a file called .env in the root of the project.

## Keys which are mandatory and will prevent the application from running

# Supported values are http and https
SITE_PROTOCOL

# Configuration which specifies the address and port of the server you're deploying
SITE_HOST

# Which environment to deploy to; supported values are local, staging, and production.
# For development and the rake db:recreate command,  "local" is required.
DEPLOY_REMOTE

## Keys which are optional

# Configuration associated with emailing registrants of the platform
# Required if the intent is to send emails in production; not needed for local development.
MANDRILL_APIKEY
MANDRILL_USERNAME

# Configuration associated with Amazon S3
# Required if the intent is to allow uploading of avatars.
S3_BUCKET
S3_KEY
S3_SECRET
S3_REGION

# Configuration associated with Twitter.
# Required if the intent is to display tweets inline with content, or to allow the fetching of avatars from Twitter.
# Note that there exists a fallback for pulling back avatars with Twitter.
TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN
TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET

# Username under which all emails are sent as from the platform
# Required if the intent is to send emails in production.
GMAIL_USERNAME

# This adds support for Sidekiq to have more threads when connecting to the database.
# In support of Heroku, if you have DATABASE_URL set, then this option will be used.
SIDEKIQ_CONCURRENCY

# Only used to support SIDEKIQ_CONCURRENCY; not necessary in development
DATABASE_URL

# Used for production, this is in support of the Dalli cache store used for the site.
MEMCACHIER_SERVERS

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