Calumni: Student-Alumni-Network-App

• Link to deployed app on Heroku: https://calumni-demo.herokuapp.com/

• Link to Pivotal Tracker project: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/2118464

• Brief Explanation:
  The purpose of this App is to connect students with alumni in industry.
  This is a Networking App where students can find alumni from industry to get help with:

  • referrals; resume feedback; mock interview; advice on career; company tours...

• Link to Initial Customer Meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLoHODcZZHo

Instructions for environment setup

• Development

  • It is recommended to deploy this project locally instead of on cloud9, as elasticsearch cost much memory and you may not have access to port 9200 on cloud9.
  • bundle install --without production
  • rake db:migrate
  • rake db:seed
  • export GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=xxx
  • export GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=xxx

• Testing:

  • rake db:seed RAILS_ENV=test --trace

• Production:

  • heroku
    • setup environment variable for aws
    • setup environment for elasticsearch

• Search feature

  • We use gem Searchkick to implement search function, while Searchkick supports the complete Elasticsearch Search API. You have to install elasticsearch before you can use searchkick.
  • ElasticSearch Installation
    • Installation, currently using 5.6.4
    • For macOS user, use brew
      • brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/3f9a5fc50e42f6bdd17f955419c299653a0f65b9/Formula/elasticsearch.rb
    • use curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/?pretty' to make sure you have start elasticsearch service
  • use 'rake searchkick:reindex CLASS=People' to build the index
  • use People.search("xxx" ,autocomplete:true,fields:[:username,:company]).map{|u| {username:u.username,company: u.company}} to make sure your searchkick works
  • deploy to heroku
    • activate one of the elasticsearch provider like bonsai
    • connect searchkick with bonsai
      • heroku config:set ELASTICSEARCH_URL=heroku config:get BONSAI_URL
    • heroku run rake searchkick:reindex CLASS=People
    • heroku run rake db:migrate

• Image/file upload

  • We use gem paperclip to support image upload and store them locally in development mode.
    • run sudo apt-get install imagemagick to install related library.
  • On heroku, we store images/files on AWS s3.
  • Setup AWS

    • create an s3 bucket

    • setup environment variable for AWS

       heroku config:set S3_BUCKET_NAME=project_name
       heroku config:set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=key_id
       heroku config:set AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=key
       heroku config:set AWS_REGION=region