brianpetro/launch-app

Template for gaining start-up validation via pre-launch. Rails 4.2. Ruby 2.2.

README¶ ↑

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Built for deployment on Heroku¶ ↑

Demo: launch-app.plexm.com¶ ↑

API/Secret Keys¶ ↑

Local api keys are kept in a ‘.env’ file that is not committed to the git repo. The ‘.env.example’ file is provided as boilerplate.

Production api key should be handled responsibly(use ‘heroku config:set’ feature) and not commited to git.

Required ENV to Work¶ ↑

• MANDRILL_APIKEY

• MANDRILL_USERNAME

• FROM_EMAIL

• PRODUCTION_DOMAIN

Dotenv Values to Set¶ ↑

• Domain

• Mandrill API key and username

• from email

CDN Configuration¶ ↑

• Allowed HTTP methods: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, POST, PATCH, DELETE

• simple AWS CloudFront CORS setup: blog.cloud66.com/cross-origin-resource-sharing-cors-blocked-for-cloudfront-in-rails/

Social Networks / Share Links¶ ↑

Share Link Config¶ ↑

Set required variable values in /app/helpers/home_helper.rb

Meta Tags¶ ↑

• Uses metamagic. See github.com/lassebunk/metamagic

• Open graph ogp.me/

• Twitter cards(and open graph fallback) dev.twitter.com/cards/markup

CSS Assets¶ ↑

Bootstrap 3.3.4¶ ↑

Served via vendor/assets

Bootstrap Material Design Theme¶ ↑

Included via gem: github.com/Aufree/bootstrap-material-design

Font Awesome 4.3¶ ↑

Included via font-awesome-rails gem

Split Testing¶ ↑

Split tests are run by injecting a piece of JavaScript that adjusts the page as required.

Tracking Email Submissions¶ ↑

URL parameter ‘i’ is the default tracking parameter. The User.tracker attribute will be set as the parameter’s value if present.

• Example URL ‘launchapp.example.com/?i=my-facebook’

A tracking cookie is store for 3 days when a tracking parameter is used.

Todo¶ ↑

Tests¶ ↑

• JavaScript should set user_tracker input value to ‘i’ parameter

DEPRECATED¶ ↑

• figure out situation with DEPRECATED _path in mailer views, in favor of _url