A StackOverflow-inspired Q&A platform built with Ruby on Rails.

This project was built as part of the Thinknetica professional development course, which I started when I was 1 year into my first Rails job.

Mentors: Vladimir Dementyev (@palkan) (Evil Martians), Vladimir Kurennov (@vkurennov) (Thinknetica, CTO)

• Questions and answers with voting system
• Best answer selection
• Comments on questions and answers
• File attachments
• Real-time updates via WebSockets (PrivatePub)
• Full-text search (Sphinx)
• OAuth authentication (Facebook, Twitter)
• REST API with OAuth2 (Doorkeeper)
• Email notifications with subscriptions
• Background jobs (Sidekiq)
• Authorization policies (Pundit)

# Install Ruby 2.3.0 with rbenv
rbenv install 2.3.0
rbenv local 2.3.0

# Install dependencies
bundle install

# Setup database
cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
rake db:create db:migrate db:seed

# Setup secrets
cp config/secrets.yml.sample config/secrets.yml

# Start Redis
redis-server &

# Start Sidekiq
bundle exec sidekiq &

# Start the server
bundle exec rails server

• Ruby 2.3 / Rails 4.2
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Sidekiq
• Sphinx (thinking-sphinx)
• Devise + OmniAuth
• RSpec + Capybara
• Capistrano deployment
• Unicorn