Question Cove

A application to facilitate questions and answers written in Ruby on Rails.

REQUIRES MySQL >= 5.6

Development

bundle install
rake db:create
rake db:migrate
rails s

Emails

Go to http://localhost:3000/emails to view emails sent by the application is development mode

Authentication

This app uses Google OAuth to authenticate users. To set up, follow these steps:

• Go to 'https://console.developers.google.com'
• Select your project.
• Go to Credentials, then select the "OAuth consent screen" tab on top, and provide an 'EMAIL ADDRESS' and a 'PRODUCT NAME'
• Create credentials > OAuth client ID
• Choose Web application
• Enter <host>/auth/google/callback as a Authorized redirect URIs (http://localhost:3000/auth/google/callback for local development)
• Enter the Client ID and secret in config/initializers/omniauth.rb
• Add email domains to config.domain_whitelist in config/initializers/omniauth.rb
  • Allow all emails: Regexp.union(/.*/)
  • Multiple domains: Regexp.union(/@domain1.com/, /@domain2.com/)