Checkers game (Rails)

Final project for SWE 681: Secure Software Design

Current Status

The game is live at my Heroku cloud platform. Email me for the url.

Setup Checkers game on localhost

0. Ensure you have all dependencies installed to be able to run Rails application in local Windows environment. See below for more instructions.
1. Download my source code and unarchive the zip, navigate to the root of this unarchived folder
2. To install Rails dependencies with gem packages, run bundle install
3. To initialize the database, run rake db:setup. See important note below!
4. Run rake db:migrate to set up the database schema
5. Optional: To generate fake data for the database, run rake db:populate use --trace flag if it failed.
6. To start rails server, run rails s (Default port number is 3000 but you can specify port number by using -p X flag where X being any value)
7. Navigate your browser (preferably Firefox) to localhost:3000

Important: Be sure to change the sysadmin username password as it defaults to Admin123 when deploying this app for first time!

Setting up Windows environment for running Rails application

0. Install Ruby Installer 2.0.0 (32-bit) from Ruby Installer for Windows.

• checkmark "Add Ruby executables to your PATH"
• checkmark "Associate .rb and .rbw files with this Ruby installation"

1. Install Development Kit (32-bit) from the same Ruby Installer website. Read this installation instructions
2. If you are running on Windows 8, you may need to install 32-bit Node.js.
3. Run this in command: gem install bundler

TODO

1. Add multiple jump capability
2. Review Rails Security and OWASP Rails Cheatsheet