cloudxtreme/banksclosedtoday

Are Banks Closed Today?

Are Banks Closed Today?

Welcome!

"Are Banks Closed Today?" is a Rails application for checking whether banks in a given country are open. Check it out at http://banksclosedtoday.herokuapp.com/. If you're not able to access the site, you might need to wait a few hours (sorry - I'm on the free heroku plan).

Getting Started

"Are Banks Closed Today?" is very simple to setup on Heroku. Simply clone the repository, ensure that all dependencies are setup, then deploy to your Heroku application.

Services

Various services are used for the operation of the app. The table below shows all such services that are currently used by the app.

Service	Purpose	Required by Default	How To Setup
Heroku	Hosting service	No	Signup for heroku; set REQUIRED_ENV_VARIABLES from tasks/deploy.rake in .ENV file (not prod!); run task and complete first deploy
Keen.io	Usage metrics (e.g. usage)	Yes	Use Addon on Heroku (or signup and manually set env variables)
NewRelic	App metrics (e.g. speed)	Yes	Use Addon on Heroku (or signup and manually set env variables)
Papertrail	App logging	No	Use Addon on Heroku (or signup and manually set env variables)
Rollbar	Exception tracking	Yes	Use Addon on Heroku (or signup and manually set env variables)
Maxmind	GEOIP lookups	Yes	Signup on https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-city and set GEOIP_USERNAME and GEOIP_PASSWORD env variables
Uptime Robot	Uptime monitoring	No	Signup on https://uptimerobot.com and configure for your site

Environment Settings

In addition to the above dependencies, the app requires several additional changes to match your environment.

Name	Description	Required by Default	Where to Set
Creator Email Address	The email address of the site operator.	Yes	CREATOR_EMAIL_ADDRESS env variable and error pages (public/500.html, public/404.html)
Rails secret token	Necessary for cookie signing	Yes	Set RAILS_SECRET_TOKEN env variable to random value (see config/initializers/secret_token.rb)
Google Site Verification	Necessary for google webmaster panel	No	Signup on Google and verify site with DNS record