PhilBrasil

"Have you taken a prudence pill?" - Olegario, Gilson

PhilBrasil is a web project aimed to index/list links to portuguese based philosophical papers, articles, texts, paragraphs, and other related material.

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Rails and Philosophy

Rails has an important position on how the web based projects have being made in the last 10 years. It's philosophy contains the agile development way of working and thinking.

Because of these, aiming to be simple enough to understand and maintain, PhilBrasil is built upon this rock.

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Download, Install, etc

Well, you can download, install, edit and run PhilBrasil wherever and whenever you want. The following commands are supposed to work fine with linux.

Prerequesites:

• Ruby >= 2.2.2
• Rails
• Git
• MySQL (you can change it if you want, but will need to search other place for it)
• Bundler (gem install bundler) ¹
• Nodejs
• libmysqlclient-dev

git clone https://github.com/cgregoreki/philbrasil_res
cd philbrasil_res/
bundle install
rake db:create
rake db:migrate
rails s

The last line serves to initialize the local server on your machine. Then, to test it, open a browser and visit localhost:3000. If it fails (almost certainly), you'll need to configure the database.

• Open philbrasil/config/database.yml
• Replace the username and password to you current data.
• Go back to the 'rake db:create' step above

Mailer Configuration

The mailer is configurated to work under development environment. However, you'll need to inform your credentials for your email account to use the service. For PhilBrasil, we are using the Google smtp server. So, the configuration is valid for this server.

To put your credentials, open config/environments/development.rb and replace your credentials where indicated. For the production environment, we aren providing any configuration. You should do it on your own. Good luck.

Running the MagCrawler(v3)

The MagCrawler is a crawler designed to get information (links and other data) from the public articles inside a magazine and register it to a database. It does not have a final version because every single magazine has it's particularities. To run it (at a command shell), go to the philbrasil_res folder and type:

rails runner magcrawler/mag_crawler_v3.rb

¹ Maybe you need to update PATH or the gem executables will not run. Add export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.gem/ruby/2.3.0/bin" to your .bashrc or .zshrc, before you install the bundles.