• Ruby 2.4
• Rails 5
• Nginx / Puma
• PostgreSQL

Using docker is probably the easiest way to setup your local API if you want to work on mostly front-end part. Docker should be already installed to follow this process. More info about docker setup is on here.

Run following commands to build docker:

docker-compose build
docker-compose up

Then a server is up on http://localhost:3001

If you made changes in bin/start.sh for DB reset, etc, run following commands again:

docker-compose build && docker-compose up

If you want to build a local API environment manually on your machine,

First install rbenv and ruby

brew install rbenv
brew install ruby-build
rbenv install 2.4.2

If you don't have PostgresSQL or Node installed on your machine, install it via

brew install postgresql node

Then prepare your dev database:

PG_UNAME=steemhunt
psql -d postgres -c "CREATE USER $PG_UNAME;"
psql -d postgres -c "ALTER USER $PG_UNAME CREATEDB;"
psql -d postgres -c "ALTER USER $PG_UNAME WITH SUPERUSER;"

Then clone the api repo on your_path/steemhunt/api and web repo on your_path/steemhunt/web

On api repo, install gems

gem install bundler
bundle install

then migrate database

bundle exec rails db:drop db:create db:migrate db:seed

Now you finished installation.

You can start both api and web server by running

bundle exec rails start