• 📗 Table of Contents
• 📖 Hello Rails Backend
  • 🛠 Built With
    • Tech Stack
    • Key Features
  • 🚀 Live Demo
  • 💻 Getting Started
    • Prerequisites
    • Setup
    • Install
    • Usage
    • Run tests
    • Deployment
  • 👥 Authors
  • 🔭 Future Features
  • 🤝 Contributing
  • ⭐️ Show your support
  • 🙏 Acknowledgments
  • 📝 License

Hello Rails Backend is a basic Rails API that has an endpoint that returns a random greeting from a previously set-up database table in JSON format. You can find the front end built with React here. This has been made as an exercise for Microverse Bootcamp.

• Returns a random greeting from the API endpoint in JSON format.
• Ruby on Rails API implementation.
• PostgreSQL database used.

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This is simply an exercise and it will not be deployed.

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To get a local copy up and running, follow these steps.

To run this project you need:

• Ruby version 2.7.0+
• Rails version 7+
• PostgreSQL
• Node.js
• Npm or Yarn

Clone this repository to your desired folder:

https://github.com/crclothier/hello-rails-back-end.git

cd hello-rails-back-end

Install this project with:

bundle install

npm install

or

yarn install

This app uses PostgreSQL databases for data preservation. Please provide valid credentials in the /config/database.yml file.

To initialize the database run:

rails db:create

rails db:migrate

To create initial data in your database run:

rails db:seed

This will create 5 records with greetings in different languages.

To run the server, execute the following command:

rails s` or `rails server

This will start the server on http://localhost:3000/
To reach the API endpoint go to http://localhost:3000/api/greeting

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👤 Chris Clothier

• GitHub: @CRClothier
• LinkedIn: LinkedIn

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User suggested greetings - create an API endpoint for user suggested greetings to be submitted and added to the greetings list.

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Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!

Feel free to check the issues page.

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If you like this project please give it a star ⭐

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• Microverse Bootcamp
• Your name will go here if you contribute 😎

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This project is MIT licensed.

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