Create a Base Web App -

Web App Meetup Homework 1

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Create a New Rails App

1. $ rails new <name_of_app>
2. $ cd <name_of_app>
3. $ bundle install
4. 
   

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Install Devise

http://guides.railsgirls.com/devise/

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Install Postgres

http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/

$ gem install pg

Add gem 'pg' to your Gemfile and run bundle install.

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In config/database.yml, use the following settings:
(yaml is white space delimited so make sure you space it exactly like this)

development:
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  database: <yourdatabasename>
  pool: 5
  password: <yourpassword_orleaveitblank>

test:
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  database: <yourdatabasename>
  pool: 5
  timeout: 5000

production:
  adapter: postgresql
  database: <yourdatabasename>
  pool: 5
  timeout: 5000
  user: <yourusername>
  password: <yourpassword>
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For Ubuntu Trusty64

1. Create the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
2. add a line for the repository
deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ trusty-pgdg main

Import the repository signing key, and update the package lists
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | \
sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20587779/heroku-wont-recognize-pg-gem-in-my-rails-app-gemfile

Once installed, make sure you initialize the pg datastore.

also, depending how your pg is installed, you might need to specify the username and host in your database.yml file

  username: someuser_on_pg
  host: localhost