books_on_rails

An API to support the React UI for the My Bookshelf app [https://github.com/liztownd/mybookshelf.git].

Database initialization and local development

The api uses postgres for the database. For local development, install all dependencies by running

bundle

Ensure your local postgres database is running and that you have created a local_env.yml in the config directory with the following variable (and that you have updated your username in the database.yml file):

PG_PASSWORD: "your password"

Then run the following commands on the command line at the root of your directory (please note, you might need to prepend with bin/ depending on your local configurations)

rails db:create db:migrate db:seed
rails  s

After starting the server navigate to [http://localhost:3000/api/v1/users] to view the JSON output of the "get all users" command. There should be one entry.

Deployment

The API is deployed on heroku. You can access the UI at [https://liztownd.github.io/mybookshelf].