running the server

Running the server locally

Before running the server for the first time, be sure to generate a secret. First use generate a random key using:

rake secret

Next create a new file config/initializers/secret_token.rb. In this file, add a single line:

Autoadvisor::Application.config.secret_token = "<secret key>"

You can run the server locally easily with the following command:

rails server -e development

To run the production server locally, you'll need to set the Amazon RDS environment variables. Running source ./fake_prod.sh does this for you:

export RDS_USERNAME="root"
export RDS_PASSWORD="password"
export RDS_HOSTNAME="127.0.0.1"
export RDS_PORT="3306"

Assuming there is a mysql server running there, the production server is as simple as rails server -e production.