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Guides for developing our web application.

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The Things

The Language

Ruby - a dynamic scripting language with a focus on simplicity

The Framework

Rails - a popular MVC web framework built on ruby

The Database

PostgreSQL - a fast and secure relational database with a large following

The Server

Heroku - a free-to-use cloud application platform focusing on hosting web applications

The Version Control System

Git - a very popular distributed version control system

GitHub - a git repository hosting service

Getting Started

Open a terminal and change to the repository directory

$ pwd
/Users/yourusername
$ cd path/to/repo

Make sure that all required packages are installed

$ bundle install

Make sure that all database migrations have been run

$ bundle exec rake db:migrate

Start up the rails server

$ rails server

Other Useful Software

Sublime Text - a popular text editor
Screenhero - screen sharing made for remote developers

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