codeguild-co / andrew

A Ruby blog for Andrew Lamnea

base-ruby

This is the base of a blogging website written in Ruby (and Rails)

Instructions

To get this base blog online you'll need to:

1. Get Billy to give you your own copy of this repo
   • You probably already have this
   • You'll have picked a unique domain name too
2. Signup to Heroku
3. Create an app on Heroku
   • Use the European region when asked
4. Connect your Heroku account to your Github account
5. Connect your Heroku app to your Github repo
6. Enable automatic deploys
7. Make a change to your repo (using the Github editor)
8. Visit your Heroku app's settings and add a custom domain
   • add your personal CodeGuild domain
   • e.g. wm.codeguild.co
9. Visit your domain and see your blog!

Adding Posts

1. Create a file for your new post in app/views/posts
2. Add a new endpoint to the posts controller in app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
3. Add a route to your new endpoint in config/routes.rb

It's easy, but boring. You should try using Ruby (and Rails) to automate these steps (be lazy!).