dodoburner/budget-app

A RoR mobile app built for tracking expenses. The user can create an account and log his expenses by category.

Purchase Tracker

This is a RoR mobile app created for tracking your expenses. It allows the user to:

• register and log in, so that the data is private to them.
• introduce new transactions associated with a category.
• see the money spent on each category.

Built With

• Ruby on Rails
• Bootstrap
• PostgreSQL
• Devise
• Rspec
• Capybara

Live

• https://rails-o4f2.onrender.com/

Video Tour

• https://www.loom.com/share/4d04a5d109274b7ca6dc6bc3866fd02f

Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

Prerequisites

• Ruby runtime environment
• PostgreSQL
• Rails

## 🛠 Installation & Set Up

If you dont have Ruby installed on your computer, you can download it from here.

If you dont have Rails installed on your computer, you can download it from here.

If you dont have PostgreSQL installed on your computer, you can download it from here.

If you have installed git you can clone the code to your machine, or download a ZIP of all the files directly.

Download the ZIP from this location, or run the following git command to clone the files to your machine:

• Once the files are on your machine, open the blog-app folder in your code editor. Run the following command in your terminal to install the required gems and run the application:

NOTE: You may need to run the following commands in the project directory to install the required gems and run the application:

1. Install gem packages with:

bundle install
npm i

2. Open the config/database.yml file in the project directory and change the username and password to your PostgreSQL username and password. Edit the default section of the file to look like this:

  default: &default
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  # For details on connection pooling, see Rails configuration guide
  # http://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#database-pooling
  pool: <%= ENV.fetch("RAILS_MAX_THREADS") { 5 } %>
  username: <your PostgreSQL role username>
  password: <your PostgreSQL role password>

3. Create the database with:

rails db:create

4. Start the development server

foreman start -f Procfile.dev

5. Open the app in your browser at http://localhost:3000

Author

👤 Dorian Urem

• GitHub: @dodoburner
• Twitter: @DorianUrem
• LinkedIn: Dorian Urem

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!

Feel free to check the issues page.

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