The Commuter

DEMO

SETUP

Prerequisites:

• You will need get your MTA API KEY to access departure times.
• Ruby 3.0.0 or later as well as the gems listed in Gemfile (run bundle install).
• Bundler v2+.

Installation Instructions:

Both the installation and usage of this application requires a command line interface (e.g., Terminal or iTerm2 for macOSX users).

1. Run git clone https://github.com/kylejb/nyc-mta-station-arrival-feed.git in the directory/folder of your choice and cd nyc-mta-station-arrival-feed/ once the download is complete.

2. You should now be in the root directory of the project. Type in ls and hit enter. You are in the right place, if you see "bin", "config", "db", "demo", "lib", "README", etc.

From the root directory of the project (see Step 2), the following commands must be inputted as written:

3. Run rake db:migrate to initialize a local copy of my database model on your computer.

4. Run rake db:seed to populate your database with TrainStation data; uncomment and modify line 15 in db/seeds.rb, if you want to initialize database with the username and password of your choice.

   1. It's okay to re-run rake db:seed if you decide to initialize the database with your credentials later.

5. Finally, ruby bin/run.rb to run the application. Enjoy!

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Author

• Kyle Burda (@kylejb)