ChatRoom

An educational application where a user without registration can create a "room" for communication. You can send a link to this "room" to a friend and he will also be able to enter into correspondence.

Upon entering the site, a username is generated automatically. Users can delete their created rooms.

PostgreSQL is used as a powerful, open source object-relational database system.

For the development of the frontend, used bootstrap 5.0 and webpacker 5.

Ruby and Ruby on Rails version

• Ruby 3.0.0

• Rails 6.1.3

The main gems used in the application:

redis - in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker;

faker - easily generate fake data: names, addresses, phone numbers, etc;

turbolinks - makes navigating your web application faster;

Deploy app local

Note: all commands must be run from the command line/terminal, from the directory, where you clone repository

1. Download or clone repository, then run bundler

bundle exec install

2. To create a database, run

rails db:schema:load

3. Credentials setup

For the application to work correctly in a production environment, add the following keys and their values to your credentials.yml.enc file:

EDITOR=nano rails credentials:edit

redis:
  redis_url:

production_db:
  database:
  username:
  password:

Deploy on Heroku

1. Attach Heroku Redis to an application via the CLI:

heroku addons:create heroku-redis:hobby-dev -a your-app-name

2. Add your master.key to Heroku Config Vars

heroku config:set RAILS_MASTER_KEY=123456789

3. Config production enviroment

Change the options config.action_cable.url and config.action_cable.allowed_request_origins in config/environments/production.rb with a URL to your app on Heroku.

4. Deploy app on Heroku

git push heroku master

How to run app

To start the Rails server, type

rails s