README.md

🔧 Push'n'Pray

Light a candle for your deploy. Bless your CI with hope and memes 🙏

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📆 What is this?

Push'n'Pray is a fun service that lets you "light a candle" before or after a release. It generates a blessed animated candle GIF with your message and a unique link you can share or embed in your Merge Request, Slack, or README.

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⚙️ Features

• 🕯️ Animated candle with flickering flame
• ✍️ Custom message and author
• 🌐 Shareable image URL
• 📎 Markdown embed code for Merge Requests
• 🟣 Docker-ready + CI/CD friendly

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🚀 How to use

1. Visit the web UI (or call API)
2. Enter a wish (e.g. “Please no 500 on prod 🙏”)
3. Click "Submit candle"
4. Embed the result:

![Blessed Candle](https://push-n-pray.tech-pioneer.info)

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🟣 Deployment

Docker

docker build -t push-n-pray .
docker run -p 8080:8080 push-n-pray

Visit http://localhost:8080

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💥 Environment Variables

Name	Description	Default
PORT	Port to run the server	8080
DATABASE_URL	URL to Postgres	postgresql://...

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🧪 API

POST /candles

Create a new candle.

Form fields:

• message — your wish or blessing

Response (HTML): returns a preview with markdown embed

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📅 GitHub Actions

This project includes a GitHub Action to build and publish Docker images to ghcr.io.

See .github/workflows/docker.yml

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❤️ Credits

Made with memes, Go and love by your friendly DevOps priest.
Bless your pipelines. Amen. 🙏