migugalde/itph-forum

A community forum created for the nonprofit organization In The Potter's Hands.

In The Potter's Hands is a non-profit counseling center based in Pleasanton, California (client website: www.itph.org). Our challenge was to meet their need of having an online community forum where the organization community can interact and support eachother, while also maintaining a form of authorization and moderation.

Deployed Web App on Heroku: https://whispering-peak-99132.herokuapp.com/

Pivotal Tracker: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/2071063

Test Accounts 

Admin username: [email protected],  Admin password: tester

User username: [email protected],  User password: user_password

Setup details:

Envirmental - Assuming you are in c9:

Step 1) cd /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.0/gems/merit-3.0.0/lib/merit
Step 2) navigarte to model_additions.rb 
Step 3) edit line 10 from 

    belongs_to :sash, class_name: 'Merit::Sash', inverse_of: nil

    to 

    belongs_to :sash, class_name: 'Merit::Sash', inverse_of: nil, optional: true

Heroku (deploying):

If you are deploying on your own Heroku please do the following -

1. In order to support real time comments and posts you will need to do steps 2-5 in the "Deploying our Application to Heroku" of this manual :

   https://blog.heroku.com/real_time_rails_implementing_websockets_in_rails_5_with_action_cable#deploying-our-application-to-heroku

2. In order to support media storage (profile pics for example), connect to heroku repository and do the following with your AWS information in the quoted fields:

   heroku config:set S3_BUCKET_NAME="your bucket name"

   heroku config:set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="your access key id"

   heroku config:set AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="your secret access key"