The learning platform we use at Make it Real. It is a Rails 4 project that uses PostgreSQL as the database and Docker to evaluate the challenges.

In order to install and run the project locally you need to have the following installed:

• PostgreSQL
• Docker (optional, only if you want to evaluate challenges)

Once you have installed the requirements, download the project by cloning it from Git:

$ git clone git@github.com:makeitrealcamp/start.git

Then, install the dependencies with:

$ bundle

Create the database, load the schema and seed the database:

$ rails db:create
$ rails db:schema:load
$ rails db:seed

To run tests you will need chromedriver.

To evaluate challenges you will need the mir-evaluator, which you can download with the following command (assuming you already have Docker installed):

$ docker pull makeitrealcamp/mir-evaluator

The workflow for contributing to this project is the following:

1. Identify an issue you want to work on

Checkout our Waffle board to identify the issues that are ready for work (they are ordered by priority). Once you have selected one, assign it to yourself (you can`t have more than two issues assigned to you at the same time).

2. Create a branch

$ git checkout master
$ git pull
$ git checkout -b xx-short-description

The name of the branch should start with the number of the issue, followed by max three keywords that describe the issue (e.g. 23-fix-homepage, 56-change-font, etc.).

3. Work on the branch

Commit often and try to create small commits, just be sure that the tests are passing before commiting. Rebase against the upstream frequently to prevent your branch from diverging significantly:

$ git fetch origin
$ git rebase origin/master

Once you finish, you can push the branch and initiate a pull request.

Note: remember that an issue is not finished until it's fully tested!

4. Push the branch and initiate the pull request

When you are done, and you have organized your commits locally, it's time to push the branch.

$ git push -u origin xx-short-description

Open a pull request (PR) on Github.

A commit message has a first line, a blank line and an optional body. For example (taken from the Rails repository):

Make flash messages cookie compatible with Rails 4

In #xxx we removed the discard key from the session hash used to flash
messages and that broke compatibility with Rails 4 applications because they
try to map in the discarded flash messages and it returns nil.

Fixes #xxx.

Notice that the first line and the body are capitalized. The first line should be 50 characters or less and should start with a verb (e.g. make, fix, create, implement, add, etc.).

The body should be wrapper to 72 characters and you can reference any issue and use keywords to close them.

Tip: Think about sending an e-mail to a colleague where the first line is the subject of the email, and the body is the body of the e-mail.