Animal Rights Network

The Animal Rights Network is a platform to unite the animal rights activism community and make it more accessible.

Contribution

Every animal rights advocate with the required skills is welcome to help in the development of this awesome project. Details and development guidelines are stated in the Contribution wiki page. If you would like to contribute in a way besides programming, feel free to open issues for feature requests or contact me personally 😄

Get the application running yourself

To get the web application running, make sure ruby >= 2.2.2 is installed on your system.

Install rails version 5.1:

gem install rails -v 5.1

Clone the repository to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/AnimalRightsNetwork/arn-webapp.git
cd arn-webapp

Checkout the branch you would like to work on and install the required gems:

bin/bundle install --without production

Create and migrate the database:

bin/rails db:create
bin/rails db:migrate

Now you should be able to start the server:

bin/rails server

Deploy the application yourself

To get the web application running, make sure ruby >= 2.2.2 is installed on your system.

Install rails version 5.1:

gem install rails -v 5.1

Clone the repository to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/AnimalRightsNetwork/arn-webapp.git
cd arn-webapp

Make sure you are on the master branch to get the the latest stabel release:

git checkout master

Replace the unicorn-rails and the mysql2 gems in the :production group with your prefered app server and database driver.

Install the required production gems:

bin/bundle install --without development test

Setup your database.

Set up the following environment variables (for example in your .bash_profile):

export RAILS_DATABASE=<driver>://<db-user>:<db-password>@<db-ip>:<dp-port>/<db-name>
export SECRET_KEY_BASE=<secret> # Can be generated by 'bin/rails secret'
export RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES=true # Only if your web server is not configured to serve the static files
export RAILS_ENV=production

Migrate the database:

bin/rails db:migrate

Precompile the assets:

bin/rails assets:precompile

Start the application server on your desired ip address and port (by default localhost:3000):

bin/rails server --binding <ip-address> --port <port>