Latter is a table-tennis ladder web application used at 3months. It uses the Elo rating system to keep track of players' ratings and is fast and easy to use.
Latter recently moved from Rails 4.0 to 4.1, and as part of this migration, moved the location of the secret_key_base configuration from an initializer to the config/secrets.yml. In order to make this change, you need to generate a secret using rake secret, and set it in your applications configuration in the ENV hash as the SECRET_KEY_BASE key. See http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.html#csrf-protection-from-remote-script-tags
Latter started life as a Sinatra application - in fact, one of the first apps that I had built. Due to it's awful original design and lack of usability though, it fell into disuse.
Following a surge in table tennis playing at 3months, I took a look at what it was trying to do, and refactored the application design and UI to make it more usable.
After a few months of use, and a great deal of extra features, bugfixes and change, I made the decision to switch to Rails, in order to more closely fit with technologies I was comfortable with, to make it easier for contributors to contribute, and because I felt that the Sinatra app would need more and more 'Rails-ness' added to it to continue to grow.
Latter is a standard Rails application, based around ActiveRecord. It is 97% covered by specs (although the coverage can be off by a few percentage points), and is very tidily organized.
The set up for the application is very simple, and standard for a Ruby on Rails application.
- Clone the repository
- Run bundle install
- Run rake db:setup
- Copy the database YAML file:
cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml - Assuming you're using Faye (which you should in development):
cp Procfile.faye Procfile - Start the Rails server:
foreman start - Generate a session secret and configure it in your ENV hash on the production server: Run
rake secretand set the config - for example, on Heroku, runheroku config:add SECRET_KEY_BASE="[YOUR SECRET]"
The application will run quite happily on Heroku - that's where it's deployed for 3months. It should also run just fine on any other standard Rails deploy targets.
Latter was originally developed, and then refactored by Josh McArthur. I continue to vet and suggest improvements on pull requests, and oversee future improvements to keep the application as usable as possible while packing the most cool features in.
I'd like others to get use out of this application, so this application is licensed under the Poetic form of the MIT License.
© 2012, Josh McArthur
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