Volition

Build status:

Self hosting

Volition is designed with self hosting in mind. By using “Deploy to Heroku” button above, you can be up and running in a few minutes!

To update your deployed app with the lastest changes:

1. Clone this repo: git clone git@github.com:garrettqmartin8/volition.git
2. Run bin/update_heroku from the command line.
3. Enjoy your updated app!

Setting up reminders

To take advantage of the daily reflection reminders, you may need to do some extra setup:

SMS reminders

You’ll need to create a Twilio account and set three environment variables in the .env file:

• TWILIO_SID
• TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN
• TWILIO_SENDER_PHONE_NUMBER

Email reminders

You’ll need to set some SMTP environment variables in the .env file:

• SMTP_ADDRESS
• SMTP_DOMAIN
• SMTP_PASSWORD
• SMTP_USERNAME

Contributing

After you have cloned this repo, run this setup script to set up your machine with the necessary dependencies to run and test this app:

% ./bin/setup

It assumes you have a machine equipped with Ruby, Postgres, etc. If not, set up your machine with this script.

PRs are welcome!