Deploying the app

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If you decide to deploy to Heroku:

• Heroku Command Line Interface
• If you have HTTPS enabled (requires a paid dyno), be sure to enable config.force_ssl = true on line 47 of config/environments/production.rb

If you decide to use Docker:

Note: These instructions assume you are working with shell access to a system with Docker and docker-compose available (such as a Digital Ocean Docker image).

Note: These instructions assume you already have a domain name registered and pointed it at the IP address of your server.

1. You'll need to get the code on the server. The recommended way to do this is with a GitHub Deploy Key. Deploy Keys are just SSH keys that are tied to a project, instead of being tied to a user, which means that they can persist independently of the project's membership. You can use GitHub's guide on generating SSH keys to generate your deploy key.

2. After you've generated your deploy key and added it to your project, clone the project.

3. Create a Caddyfile. It can live anywhere (Mutual Aid Tompkins has ours at ~/.config/Caddyfile), and it should look like this, replacing your.domain.name with your organization's desired domain name:

   your.domain.name {
     header {
       Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload"
     }
   
     root * /config/public
   
     # Serve static files (like assets and packs) with the file_server
     @static_files {
       file
     }
     file_server @static_files
   
     # Anything that's not a static file, proxy to puma/rails
     @backend {
       not file
     }
     reverse_proxy @backend http://app:3000
   }
   

4. Navigate to the docker/production directory within your clone of the repo. You should see a file named docker-compose.yml.

5. Run

   docker-compose run app '/usr/local/bin/rake' secret \
    | echo "SECRET_KEY_BASE=$(tail -1 -)" > .env
   

   This will generate a secret token and add it to a file named .env, which will be available when docker-compose starts.

6. Generate (using a password manager) a password for the Postgres database, and append it to the .env file. Your .env file should look something like:

   SECRET_KEY_BASE=<A fairly long string of numbers>
   POSTGRES_PASSWORD=<your postgres password>
   

7. Start the server, database, and reverse proxy by running docker-compose --build -d

8. Initialize the database with

   docker-compose run \
     -e SYSTEM_EMAIL="theemailyouwanttouse@example.com" \
     -e SYSTEM_PASSWORD="ThePasswordYouWantToUse" \
     app rails db:prepare db:seed
   

   This will setup the database and create a default admin user with the email and password as specified by the SYSTEM_EMAIL and SYSTEM_PASSWORD environment variables you passed to docker-compose with the -e option. If you don't want to create the default user, you can just run docker-compose run app db:prepare and create the account using the sign up option on the website. Only run this command the first time you set up your instance

You should be good to go! Visit your domain name to get started.

Make sure to run rake db:seed

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