Boolder Rails

Boolder is the best way to discover bouldering in Fontainebleau.

This is the code powering the Boolder website and all the backend & data processing.

NB: if you just want a quick access to the data, check out boolder-data

Stack

• Ruby On Rails
• PostgreSQL
• Tailwind CSS
• Stimulus / Turbo

How to run the app (on a Mac)

Basics

• install homebrew: https://brew.sh/
• install rvm: https://rvm.io

Install Postgre

• cd to the app directory
• brew install postgres
• brew install postgis
• brew services start postgresql
• createdb dump-prod

Set up the app

• cd to the app directory
• install rails: sudo gem install rails
• bundle install
• rake db:setup

Import prod data

• dropdb dump-prod && createdb dump-prod
• psql -d dump-prod < db/dump-prod.sql

Run the app

• bin/dev

Mapbox credentials

• Create an account on https://www.mapbox.com.
• Go to the Tokens page and create a public token with all the public scopes (or just use the default token).
• Back in the Rails app, copy the .env.example to .env and fill out MAPBOX_DEV_ACCESS_KEY with your token
• Restart the server

Optional: JOSM

Josm is an open source tool used by the OpenStreetMap community. We use it to edit GeoJSON files.

• Follow the instructions here: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Download#macOS
• Go to File > Preferences > Plugins
• Click on the checkbox next to Fastdraw and PicLayer, and then click on OK
• Restart Josm
• In the menu bar (on the left), click on Fast Drawing mode and then type Q to enter the options dialog. Click on Draw closed polygons only, choose 3 for Starting Epsilon and Simplify with initial epsilon for Enter key mode

Contribute

Want to help us improve the app for thousands of climbers? Great!

Here are a few ways you can contribute:

• Open an issue if you find a bug
• Open an issue if you want to suggest an improvement
• Open a Pull Request (please get in touch with us beforehand, though)

We already have a lot of features waiting to be built, and lots of new ideas to try out! We'd be happy to share the fun with you :)

As the project is still young, the best way to get started is to drop us a line at hello@boolder.com

You can also contribute to our mapping efforts at https://www.boolder.com/en/contribute