About Wordstock

Wordstock is spell checking service.

This service accepts a word and returns a response indicating whether the word is spelled correctly, with suggestions if it is mis-spelled.

You can access this service at: http://wordstock.herokuapp.com/

Setup

Install system dependencies:

brew install aspell

Setup the application:

git clone git@github.com:nicholasjhenry/wordstock.git
cd wordstock
# note target Ruby version is 2.0, but should run on 1.9.3
bundle
cp .env.example .env

Start server:

 rails s

Hit the API:

 http://localhost:3000/spell.json?q=scintillating
 http://localhost:3000/spell.json?q=scintillatingZ

Test Suite

Run the test suite with:

 rspec spec

Deployment

Wordstock is deployed on Heroku. If you would like to deploy the application yourself, update line 2 of config/heroku.yml with <your-app-name>.

Setup

rake heroku:create
rake heroku:config
rake secret # generate secret token and copy
heroku config:add RAILS_SECRET_KEY_BASE=<paste secret token> -a <your-app-name>

Deploy

rake production deploy