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Database Setup

You'll need to create config/database.yml file for your local database connection. Here's a sample:

development:
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  database: loot_development
  pool: 5
test:
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  database: loot_test
  pool: 5

Guard

Run the following command to automatically execute your tests as you change them.

bundle exec guard start -i

Code coverage

Run the following command to execute all tests and view a code coverage report.

bundle exec rspec . ; open coverage/index.html

Github

Assuming the repo has already been created, execute the following to do your first push to github

git remote add origin <git_repo_url>
git push -u origin master

Twitter Bootstrap

More info on using Twitter Bootstrap

• http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
• https://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails

Simple Form

More info on using Simple Form

https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form

Inside your views, use the 'simple_form_for' with one of the Bootstrap form classes, '.form-horizontal', '.form-inline', '.form-search' or '.form-vertical', as the following:

<%= simple_form_for(@user, :html => {:class => 'form-horizontal' }) do |f| %>
<% end %>

Turbolinks

This app has the turbolinks gem installed and enabled. This gem makes page loading significantly faster, but it does change the DOM events you need to listen to when running javascript on a page. Read the docs for more info.

Heroku

You will need to add memcache and newrelic to your heroku app in order to use them as they are configured in this app. Note that all of these options are free on Heroku.

Install memcache

heroku addons:add memcache

Install New Relic

heroku addons:add newrelic:standard

Install Backup

We strongly recommend that you also configure heroku to backup your database.

heroku addons:add pgbackups:auto-month