Quora Boilerplate

This is a boilerplate app for quora-clone. It will be used to build quora-clone and help you learn web server fundamentals such as HTTP(GET/POST), RESTful Routes, Cookies and the MVC Framework.

Folder Structure

The directory structure emulates Rails MVC Framework using Sinatra.

quora-boilerplate
  ├─ config/
  │  ├── database.rb      <-- config for connecting to postgresql
  │  └── init.rb          <-- app config file
  ├─ controllers/         <-- folder for controllers               
  ├─ db/
  │  └── migrate/         <-- folder for AR migrations
  ├─ helpers/             <-- folder for helpers
  ├─ models/              <-- folder for AR models
  ├─ public/              <-- folder for public assets (CSS, JS, images)
  │  ├── css
  │  └── js
  ├─ views/
  │  └── application.erb  <-- main template
  ├─ Rakefile             <-- contains rake tasks to run CLI/server commands
  ├─ README.md
  ├─ app.rb               <-- initial controller
  └─ Gemfile              <-- to include Ruby gems

Getting Started

1. Run bundle install to install all gem dependencies
2. Start the server by running ruby app.rb

Note: Everytime you change a file, you will need to restart the server.

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Enabling live-reload with shotgun:

1. Open Gemfile and uncomment

group :development 
  gem "shotgun"
end

2. Remove set :run, true in app.rb
3. Run bundle install
4. Run server with shotgun app.rb or bundle exec shotgun app.rb