- Purpose: Liberate and give a user control over their personal data from data sharing model SNS (just Twitter for now) and double as a personal landing page.
Enviornment
- Ruby 2.6.5
- Rails 6.0.0
dependencies
- Postgresql
- Heroku (for deployment)
- Twitter Gem
Configuration I use RBENV for ruby version control. 'bundle install/upgrade' and 'yarn install/upgrade' should take care of the rest.
Database creation/initialization Production database is deployed by Heroku. Development database must be deployed manually (Instructions I used: https://www.guru99.com/postgresql-create-database.html) Heroku handles the production database. Make sure to include passwords for the respective databases in .env file.
How to run the test suite (Under Development)
Services (job queues, cache servers, search engines, etc.)
- Devise (for simple admin authentication, specify admin in .env file)
- Twitter (Backup all favorites and tweets from downloaded archive [tweet.js and like.js, respctively], scrape API every 10 minutes for updates after that.)
- Flickr (for front page photos)
Future plans for Integration
- Twitter: User setting to delete scraped tweets, unretweet, and unfavorite after a specific time period (you own your history).
- Instagram/Facebook history integration (same as Twitter).
Further instructions
- Standard Heroku Deployment, this can be run on a single web hobby dyno (7 dollars a month) on your own domain. See guide at: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-rails5#deploy-your-application-to-heroku for a good place to start.
- User account creation has been disabled. You'll need to set up the admin account manually through the rails console, i.e.
heroku run rails c
irb(main):001:0> admin = User.new
irb(main):001:0> admin.email = '(your e-mail here)'
irb(main):001:0> admin.password = '(your secure password here)'
irb(main):001:0> admin.save- Up and Running: Once you get the app up and running, you'll need to input some variables into your .env file.
FLICKR_API_KEY=(flickr api key)
FLICKR_USER=(flickr username you use to login)
TWITTER_API_KEY=(twitter dev api key)
TWITTER_API_SECRET=(twitter dev api secret)
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=(twitter dev api access token)
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=(twitter dev api access token secret)
TWITTER_USER=(your twitter user name)
TWITTER_DEV_BASIC=(your basic dev sandbox env name)
TWITTER_DEV_FULL=(your premium dev sandbox env name)
ADMIN=(admin e-mail here)