rails-mini

A small Rails project that accesses a product purchases database to recommend products for users.

Features

• ActiveRecord associations between tables, allows User.items
• rake task to import raw data from provided gzipped-csv files
• Bootstrap UI
• devise gem for authentication and login user management

Running in Docker

Make sure you have Docker installed. On Windows and OS X, boot2docker provides an installer that sets up a boot2docker VM inside of VirtualBox that has docker installed. A newer, more fun-looking option is kitematic, which has a GUI for Mac OS X, and now also for Windows.

$ git clone http://github.com/branning/rails-mini.git
$ cd rails-mini/mini-proj
$ boot2docker up
$ boot2docker ssh
$ docker build -t mini_proj .

Your app should now be running on localhost:3000.

Running Locally

Make sure you have Ruby 2.2+ and Rails 4.2+ installed. The CSV import step is going to take a while, so there's definitely time for both coffee and a bathroom break. ActiveRecord.create is being called on every row of the data, wrapped in a transaction, which is silly, but does work. The right way is to use the database's own bulk loading facility, or even a single mass INSERT.

$ git clone http://github.com/branning/rails-mini.git
$ cd rails-mini/mini_proj
$ bundle install
$ bundle exec rake db:create db:migrate import_csv:all
$ rails server -p 3000 -b 0.0.0.0

Your app should now be running on localhost:3000.

Deploying to Heroku

$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku run rake db:migrate import_csv:all
$ heroku open