saakshaat/personal_blog

Journal so that I don't lose track of life.

Journal

This is a journal that I'm using to document thoughts and events as I come across them.

Every instance can only be used by the creator through a login username and password which can be found at /app/controllers/application_controller.rb.

If you want your journal to be open to everyone, comment out Line 2: http_basic_authenticate_with :name => "", :password => ""

Rails

This is a Rails application so you must have Ruby on your system.

To use this, follow these steps:

• clone the repository
• install Ruby and Rails if you don't have it on your system
• Run bundle install
• Run rails db:migrate
  • if you get an error saying personal_blogs_development does not exists
    • run rails db:create
  • if you get an error saying the db already exists
    • run rails db:drop
• Run rails s or rails server to view it on your localhost

Hosting and Deployment

If you want to deploy it to Heroku, follow these steps:

• create your heroku account
• install the heroku CLI
• in your CLI run heroku login
  • sign in with your credentials
• to create your dyno instance run heroku create
  • this creates an instance for you with a randomly generated name
• to rename your app run heroku rename <new-name>
• now point your git remote to Heroku with heroku git:remote <app-name>
• add all the changed files to git with git add .
• commit them git commit -am '<Message>'
• finally push your code to heroku with git push heroku master