Welcome to Puffin Facts! An amazing site for learning things about puffins.

Please see our Contribution Guide to learn how to contribute to Puffin Facts.

• Install Ruby and check that your version is > 2.4.4

$ ruby -v
ruby 2.5.0

• Install SQLite3 and check your version:

$ sqlite3 --version

• Install Rails:

$ sudo gem install rails
$ rails --version

• Update dependencies:

$ bundle install
$ bundle update --bundler

• Clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/stuartlynn/puffin_facts.git
$ cd puffin_facts

• Start your server:

$ rails server

If you get an error with You must use Bundler 2 or greater with this lockfile. (Bundler::LockfileError), you need to manually replace the last line in Gemfile.lock with 1.13.6.

• Open a browser tab at http://localhost:3000/. And there you go: Puffin facts!

If you get a SQLite3 error instead, replace the sqlite line in your Gemfile.lock with sqlite3 (1.3.12).