The idea behind ITutor is to connect technology mentors with newbies looking for a reliable source of tech knowledge. The app is based on the belief that participating mentors can not stand keeping their knowledge unshared, and that hungry newbies are on their way to becoming mentors themselves.

Initial app version implies simple connection of two groups via either internal or email messages with potential further connection via platform controlled meetings. The mentors have ratings and opinions. Any user is able to search for a mentor with a specific skill set and capable of teaching in a specific human language.

We're currently deployed on Heroku. The current build should be live there assuming nothing is broken.

The application is built on Ruby (v2.4.1) on Rails (v5.1.5). We use Bootstrap 4 extensively for the front-end. We use postgreSQL (v9.5) for the database.

Our tests are ran on the rspec gem, use bundle exec rspec in the console to run them locally. We also use Rubocop to enforce styling guidelines; run that with rubocop. The repo is preconfigured to work with Travis CI.

• bundle install
• cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml (extra for collaborators: type yes to overwrite your old file)
• rails db:setup (this will create the database, load the schema and initialize it with the seed data)
• cp .env.development.example .env.development and:
  • set GMAP_KEY to Google maps API key
  • set ITUTOR_DATABASE_PASSWORD to a database password of your choice

The project is checked by Rubocop. Make sure it passes the tests, I guess.