Welcome to Be In Touch, an application to support our health by improving our relationships with the people who really matter to us.
This application was built at BarCamp London's 2024 Hackathon.
Academic studies consistently show that the quality and number of our friendships have more influence on our chances of dying than other commonly considered risk factors.
Academic Robin Dunbar says: "Having no friends or not being involved in community activities will dramatically affect how long you live." Source: Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships by Robin Dunbar
This application sets out to strengthen our most important relationships with family, friends and community through:
- reminding us to be in touch with our family and friends
- helping us remember significant occasions, both positive and negative, in the lives of our family and friends
- helping us remember important information about others in our community
- This project uses Ruby on Rails.
- 3.1.3
- There are various ways to install and update your ruby version. A popular ones is
rvm
which stands for ruby version manager, you can find more info on this and other options online.
This how-to is written for MacOS, and works on intel machines. If you're successfully work on this using a different technology then please update this how-to with how you did it.
You'll need a postgres database in order to work locally with this repo, if you don't have postgres yet, here's a way to install it
brew install postgresql
brew services start postgresql
Once your postgres database is up and running you should be able to do the following commands to set up the database for this application.
bin/rails db:create
bin/rails db:create
bin/rails db:seed
Install dependencies from the Gemfile:
bundle
Start the rails server:
bin/rails s -p 4000
Visit the site on your machine: