Interested in self hosting for friends - how to serve?

[elsherbini]

Hello, this project looks really cool and I'm interested in self-hosting it for some friends. My plan was to add some hard coded crosswords rather than using the scraper, like you did in zetter@954c337.

I'm a total ruby and rails noob, and I can't tell how you are serving the site for local dev. I've tried ./bin/setup followed by rails server and ./bin/webpack-dev-server. ./bin/setup gives and error saying that rake doesn't know how to do setup:db.

How should I serve the site locally for testing? And are there any differences between that and production?

[zetter]

Hi @elsherbini 👋

Sorry, I hadn't kept the ./bin/setup file up to date- the database setup step isn't needed but the commented out yarn step is. Please pull the latest changes and try again.

I've also updated the Readme file to list all the steps. You will need to have a Redis server running if you haven't already.

In production I run the web command in the Procfile to start the server. You should be able to deploy the app to Heroku with no code changes (I use the similar Dokku service on my own server). You'll also need to:

• Add the REDIS_URL environment variable to point to a Redis server (there's a free add-on for this if you choose to use Heroku).
• Set the WEBSOCKET_URL environment variable to point to Rail's WebSocket server on your deployed application e.g: wss://multicrosser.chriszetter.com/cable (you will need to redeploy for this to take effect).

Do let me know if the setup steps still aren't working or if you get stuck deploying your changes somewhere.

I'd love to look at any code changes that might make using other crosswords easier.