Couchfoodie

You don't like cooking that much and got sick of most local resturants; yet you still need to eat everyday.

I love cooking, whether it's fancy dinner cuisine or just sunday afternoon desserts; and I'm open to the idea of inviting a guest to taste my cooking!

What if there is a community platform that gap the supply and demand of homemade cooking?

You get...home cooked meal and a new friend!

I get...someone who appreciate my cooking and a new friend!

This is the golden opportunity to cure starvation, longingness and socialize with your neighbors!

How to run couchfoodie on your local machine

Install

• Fork this repository

• Download to your desktop or your preferred directory

• In terminal

  cd desktop/couchfoodie

  bundle install --without production

Environments and outside sources you need to set up

.env file

• You'll need to make a .env file under root directory to hold the env variables.
• Under desktop/couchfoodie cp .env.example .env

Database

• You'll need to set up postgres database on your local machine

  brew update

  brew install postgresql

  For more detailed installation guide, see here

Faceboook login setup

• This app uses facebook login for user authentication.
• The .env file include the FACEBOOK_APP_ID and FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET for a fb_login app development version, it should work out of box. If for some reason it stopped working, you can follow instructions here to set up a new facebook login app.

Amazon AWS S3

• This app uses Amazon S3 for photo storage. You'd need to set up a seperate amazon S3 account. AWS allows free account and usage.

• Register a free account if you don't have one yet. Make a bucket to store photos just for this app.

• After logging in S3, generate ACCESS KEY ID and SECRET ACCESS KEY under Services -> IAM -> Users -> your username -> Security Credentials

• Retrieve the following information:

1. Your AMAZON S3 BUCKET NAME, as a string.
2. Your S3 ACCESS KEY ID
3. Your S3 SECRET ACCESS KEY
4. Your S3 Bucket AWS ASSET HOST URL (this can be found by going bucket -> Properties, it looks something like https://couchfoodie.s3.amazonaws.com)

• Enter the those information to the appropiate matching lines in your .env file

carrierwave

• This app uses carrierwave for photo processing.
• gem install carrierwave
• Carrierwave uses ImagMagick to do the ACTUAL photo processing work
• brew install imagemagick

carrierwave-aws

• This app uses carrierwave-aws as adaptor for carrierwave + Amazon S3
• gem install carrierwave-aws

Sidekiq

• This app uses sidekiq for background processing of photo.
• gem install sidekiq

Redis

• Sidekiq uses redis for data storage, so you'll need to install and run a redis instance locally.
• Run brew install redis

Mandrill for email

• This app uses Mandrill for email server.
• Visit Mandrill site, register a free account and retrieve USERNAME and PASSWORD, input those values in your .env file.

Up and running locally

• Create empty database by running bundle exec rake db:setup

• Generate secrets.yml file by running bundle exec rake secret:create_file

• Run the database migration by running bundle exec rake db:migrate

• Run redis instance locally: Open one terminal window, run redis-server

• This app uses Procfile to start both web server and worker server, run gem install foreman to make sure you have foreman installed.

• Open another terminal window, run foreman start

• In browser, go to http://localhost:5000