The Food Tracker/Your Pantry app is a full stack appliication using React on the front and Rails on the back-end. This ReadMe serves for the Rails back-end, the React ReadMe contains more instructions for that section.
Using Rails makes the setup quite easy. You can run "Bundle install" to install all the necessary gems to get the back-end to run. Of note is that this app automatically designates your front and back end to run on different localhost ports.
There is some basic starter foods in the seeds file, but for any reasonable pantry there will be a lot of additional work to be done. I was unfortunately not able to find a simple API with food names/ingredients to pull.
Associations for nested data for the front-end fetches are designated in the serializers. The Application_Controller handles some error messaging and referencing the currently logged in user.