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HomeAway provides a peer-to-peer marketplace for finding short-term rentals around the world.

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Skylight Monitoring

Project Dependencies

• Mandrill -- required for transactional emails -- needs MANDRILL_USERNAME and MANDRILL_APIKEY ENV vars
• Amazon S3 -- used for file uploads -- needs S3_BUCKET_NAME, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY ENV vars
• Skylight IO -- used for production performance monitoring -- Configure this by setting a SKYLIGHT_AUTHENTICATION environment variable
• ImageMagick -- used for resizing and cropping images in development; make sure you have it installed: brew install imagemagick

You'll also need to make sure Paperclip is configured in production to use the appropriate region for the S3 Bucket you provided. This setting is found in config/environments/production.rb:

  config.paperclip_defaults = {
    storage: :s3,
    s3_host_name: 's3.amazonaws.com', # <-- SET THIS TO YOUR REGION
    s3_credentials: {
      access_key_id: ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'],
      secret_access_key: ENV['AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY']
    },
    bucket: ENV['S3_BUCKET_NAME']
  }

Finally, if you created a dedicated AWS "IAM" user account for this application's S3 access, don't forget to set up an "Access Policy" for that user, giving them "Full Access" to AWS S3 resources. More info on this step can be found here.

Load-testing dataset

Use the following command to create, load and push the current state of the database user the following.

Seed the database with the larg dataset:

  rake db:insert_mass_data

Create the dump file:

  rake db:pg_dump

Load the dump file:

  rake db:pg_load

Push the current data set to Heroku:

  heroku pg:push home_away_development DATABASE --app home-away

Heroku and Skylight.io

This application is already deployed to heroku and configured with Skylight.io for performance monitoring. You will be added to the appropriate projects when you join the team.

Testing

This project uses RSpec for its test suite. Run the tests with rake, rake spec, or rspec.

Contributor Log::

• Alex
• Viki
• Sam
• Danny

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