Book-Trade

Book-Trade is a hub for finding and connecting with others to exchange books. Features include seperate users, books by genre, jobs for cleaning up old posts, and admin controls. This is a final checkpoint project for rails.

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Setup

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/pulibrary/book-trade-xander.git
cd book-trade-xander

2. Install dependecies:

bundle install

3. Install Lando from https://github.com/lando/lando/releases

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Database Setup

• Create database:

rails db:create
rails db:migrate

• Seed database:

rails db:seed

• Drop database and reseed (warning, all data will be lost)

rake db:reseed

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Running background jobs in development

1. Install Redis:

brew install redis

2. Jobs are performed by background workers. Run Sidekiq to execute background jobs that are queued:

bundle exec sidekiq

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Launch the project locally

1. Start lando services:

rake servers:start

2. Start Redis with brew services start redis or redis-server
3. Start the local server

rails s

4. See the application at http://localhost:3000/

Note: Stop lando services with rake servers:stop or lando stop. Stop Redis with brew services stop redis

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