Website for geeks

A website built with ruby on rails to show group posts, analytics and other group related content.

Requirements

• Ruby 2.5.0
• SQlite3
• Nodejs
• npm
• Yarn

Installation

• Install bundler

  gem install bundler

• Install dependencies

  bundle install
  yarn install

• import posts, it assumes posts project is cloned in the same directory as this project

  rails db:setup posts:import

How it is generated

The following command was used to generate project files

rails new website --database=sqlite3 --skip-action-mailer --skip-spring --skip-action-cable --skip-coffee --skip-test

Deployment

With every push to github master branch a docker hub will build an image egygeeks/website

Prerequisite

• Generate a secret to use it for rails encryption

  rails secret

• Export the generated secret to your local machine shell, add the following to ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile

  export EGYGEEKS_SECRET_KEY_BASE=<generated secret>

• Make sure your variable is defined, the following command should print the secret

  echo $EGYGEEKS_SECRET_KEY_BASE

Deployment

• bin/deploy can pull, stop container then run new docker image, you need to pass your server IP to it

  bin/deploy user@server-ip

• deploy is 3 lines lines script:

  • pulls the image
  • stop old container
  • start new container forwarding port 3000 from inside the container to port 10001

• the container port 10001 is listening to local requests so it's not exposed to the internet

• You have to configure your http server to forward requests to that port.