README.md

Arctic Institute: Rising Tides

Rising Tides will be the first interactive online skills-based volunteering platform to connect professionals to communities in need of cultural heritage adaptation expertise.

🤖 Technologies:

• Ruby 2.5.1
• Rails 5.2.1
• Node 10.x
• PostgreSQL 10.x

📦 Installation

git clone https://github.com/calblueprint/rising-tides.git
cd rising-tides
gem install bundler -v '2.0.1'
bundle install
yarn install
gem install mailcatcher

• 🚨SPECIAL NOTE 🚨 Mailcatcher
  • Do not include this in the gemfile as it will cause conflicts with the application's gems in the future

🗂Open a seperate terminal tab and execute the following command

• mailcatcher
• Go to http://localhost:1080/ to view the SMTP server web interface

🔮Set up the database

rake db:create
rake db:migrate
rake db:seed

🔌 Start the rails server

• rails s

🌊 Accessing the Rising Tides Application

• http://localhost:3000/
• Use credentials from the seed file to log-in

🔑Accessing the Admin Dashboard

• http://localhost:3000/admins/sign_in
• Use credentials from the seed file to log-in

🧰 Webpacker/react

If setting up webpacker/react for the first time, run:

rails webpacker:install
rails webpacker:install:react
rails generate react:install

🐳 Using Whales:

First time installation: run whales bootstrap

whales s