How to set crowdsourcing platform in rails application

Question

I am new as rails developer. I have crowdsourcing platform code which is on code for crowd sourcing platform

And want to put this on my rails application domain. From where I have to start and what I have to do for complete this task?

Thanks for reply in advance.

Answer 1

The crowdsourcing platform you mention - Selfstarter - is a rails app itself.

Here's what you need to get started:

1. Pull the code down to your computer from the github repo with the following command:

   git clone https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter.git

2. change directory into the cloned repo directory:

   cd selfstarter

3. Create the database and the tables with the following command:

   bundle install --without production

4. Start the rails server:

   rails server

5. Access the client from the url http://localhost:3000

You will have the bare bones selfstarter app as shown in the image below:

All this is explained in the README of the selfstarter github repo.

To be able to understand how this was done, and to be able to customize the app for your specific needs, it would help if you learn the basics of Ruby on Rails. I would strongly recommend the freely available online Ruby on Rails Tutorial