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HFE Experience Guide

Welcome to the experience-herschend wiki! Let's get started on setting up your local environment.

Download the repository zipped files

https://github.com/billfinn/experience-herschend/archive/master.zip

Set up local environment

Set up Ruby on Rails for Mac with a local server environment.

• https://gorails.com/setup/osx/10.14-mojave

Get setup for Heroku

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-rails5#local-workstation-setup

Github repository:

• https://github.com/billfinn/experience-herschend

Software for working

• Terminal (on your Mac)
• Visual Studio Code (free)
• Postico (PostgreSQL, free version) useful for working with and updating the database on a ongoing basis
• pgAdmin - useful for local environment database administration

Hosting

Heroku https://heroku.com

• Setup your own personal account
• Provide the email address used to [email protected]
• I’ll add you as a collaborator on the current app
• Once you’re comfortable/setup, we can talk about transferring the app to an RP account

Amazon S3 https://aws.amazon.com/s3/getting-started/

• Create an account
• Share the email address for your account with me - [email protected], I’ll add you to the account

Bundling the app to run

under development

Running locally

1. Copy site files to \user\Sites\

2. Open Terminal on Mac

3. In Terminal, go to: cd sites/hfe-experience

4. Use terminal command rails s to start the local server and view the app at http://localhost:3000