higrit-legal-advisor

HiGrit is a blogging engine built on ruby on rails platform with postgres database to organize and simplify legal search services.

Demo : http://infinite-earth-9525.herokuapp.com/

Some features:

• tags (or categories)
• nested comments (reply) closure_tree gem
• Upvote/Downvote Ajax in Rails : responders gem
• pretty urls : friendly_id gem
• Text Mining Related queries using Inverse Document Frequency(tf-idf) : nokogiri & htmlentities gem
• integrated bootstrap in rails : bootstrap-sass gem
• multiple users
• Post a Free Query : Post your free online legal query with us.
• Search for Lawyers : Find best lawyers in your nearby location.
• Get Instant Answers : Lawyers from various domains will get back to you in a while.
• Search Queries Tag-wise and Rate : Get all the categorised answers and rate the queries and answers
• Admin Panel for moderation

Prerequisites

Ruby,rails and devkit

• Install ruby rubyinstaller-2.2.3-x64.exe
• Install rails on cmd prompt :

gem install rails 

• check version

rails -v
ruby -v

• Install devkit DevKit-mingw64-64-4.7.2-20130224-1432-sfx.exe

DataBase Setup :

1. Download and Install postgresql-9.4.5-3-windows-x64.exe
2. set password of postgres user : root
3. change data cluster path to other Disk except C:\ eg. F:\data (in case of cluster error)

• Open psql Shell :

i. Press Enter to continue with default user(postgres) and port 5432

ii. Create New SuperUser for Project

postgres=# CREATE ROLE rubyuser LOGIN ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'md57c9aeb504d6af71fa00e37ca8336a466' SUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE NOREPLICATION;

postgres=# \password rubyuser

iii. Install postgres adapter in cmd prompt

gem install pg
gem install activerecord-postgresql-adapter

iv. Open psql and login with postgres user

postgres=# CREATE DATABASE higrit_development OWNER rubyuser;
postgres=# CREATE DATABASE higrit_test OWNER rubyuser;
postgres=# CREATE DATABASE higrit_production OWNER rubyuser;

Some commands of postgres

• \l : show databases
• \c library_development : connect database_name
• \dt : show tables
• \d+ tablename : show table description

Configuration

1. Navigate to devkit folder in c: drive

2. Open Git Bash there and execute :

   git clone https://github.com/aqfaridi/higrit-legal-advisor.git

   OR Download zip github repository and simply extract it to devkit folder

3. Open config/database.yml file

   change development:

   development:
      adapter: postgresql
      encoding: unicode
      database: higrit_development
      username: rubyuser 
      password: root

   database => name of database in postgres you want to use for development

   username => owner of the database

   • You can create different database, open psql :

   postgres=# CREATE DATABASE <database_name> OWNER <username>;

4. Open cmd prompt in project folder , run bundle to install required gems and Migration to create Tables in db

   bundle install 
   rake db:migrate

5. Run server

   rails s

6. Open Browser and put url

   localhost:3000

Here you go !! signup the new user , sign in and create blog .. Enjoy :)

Dont Forget to put some categories of blog in Category table :

Open cmd prompt in project folder to open rails console

rails c
Category.create(name:"Divorce")
Category.create(name:"Crime")

and so on to add categories of legal queries