chron brackets

This is the site for the Duke Chronicle's annual March Madness bracket challenge. It is a Ruby on Rails application.

Setup

This rails application has been verified to work with ruby 2.3.0. Bower is also required. Once ruby and bower have been set up:

• Install dependencies: bundle install
• Run database migrations: rake db:migrate
• Install frontend dependencies: rake bower:install

The server can be run locally with rails server.

At this point, the database should be empty. You can load seed data with rake db:seed, which loads data from db/seeds.rb. Alternatively, you can create an account and create data manually. It's easiest to create an account through the app. The user can be made an admin user in the rails console, like:

$ rails c
2.3.0 :001 > user = User.first
  User Load (0.2ms)  SELECT  "users".* FROM "users"  ORDER BY "users"."id" ASC LIMIT 1
 => #<User id: 1, email: "hello@example.com", encrypted_password: "...", reset_password_token: nil, ...>
2.3.0 :002 > user.update(role: 'admin')
 => true

The admin console at /admin can be accessed when signed in as a user with an admin role.

Deployment

This application is currently deployed through Heroku. Contact Michael Lai to get access to the app used in production. We use a slightly modified buildpack for ruby apps with bower, which has already been set up in production.