HomePointrCIC is a nonprofit based in Scotland that focuses on improving access to suitable housing options and increasing occupancy rates. This webapp is an online platform to streamline the process for referral agencies to match homeless and vulnerable individuals to appropriate housing that landlords provide.
Cal Blueprint is a student-run UC Berkeley organization devoted to matching the skills of its members to our desire to see social good enacted in our community. Each semester, teams of 4-5 students work closely with a non-profit to bring technological solutions to the problems they face every day.
Pre-Setup: This project was set up on Whales a friendly Docker environment for Ruby on Rails. Please refer to this page for Whales setup instructions. In each of the following steps, you'll notice us using whales commands instead of traditional rails commands.
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Clone the homepointr repo
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Start your Docker.
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Install all appropriate gems
whales run bundle installand node moduleswhales run npm i. Note: After you have finished running a whales command before hand, you will be in the whales docker environment and no longer need to preface your commands with "whales run". -
Run
rake db:createandrake db:migrateto set up the database completely. (You do not need to preface these commands with "whales run" if you are already in the whales docker environment.) -
After setup, exit out of your whales environment with command
exit. Once you are in your computer's terminal environment, runwhales sto start the server. Navigate to http://localhost:7331 to view the whales console and http://localhost:1337 to view the local version of your app.