¿Cómo vamos?

¿Cómo vamos? is an application to keep track of solved problems by different users on online programming judges.

Brief installation

• git clone the project.
• Edit the config/database.yml as appropiated.
• Edit the SMTP server configuration in config/environment.rb
• rake db:migrate the database.
• Start the server. That’s it!

Deployment to an online server using Apache

• Access the server using ssh
• git clone the project into a non-public folder
• Make sure the shebangs of files public/dispatch.cgi, public/dispatch.fcgi and public/dispatch.rb are correct.
• Edit the SMTP configuration in config/environment.rb
• Change the environment into production:
  • Run rake environment RAILS_ENV=production
  • Uncomment the line ENV[‘RAILS_ENV’] ||= ‘production’ in config/environment.rb
• Create the production database using phpMyAdmin or whatever.
• Edit the production section in config/database.yml as appropiated.
• Migrate the database by running rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
• Make sure there is a .htaccess inside public/ This file should redirect petitions into the cgi dispatcher (A default .htaccess is included).
• Make a symbolic link into public/ that is accessible from the net, for example, ln -sf ~/como_vamos/public ~/www/como_vamos
• That’s it! Point your browswer to to the symbolic link created on the previous step.

Live demo

This application is runing on http://comovamos.factorcomun.org