Starcraft 2 predictions app

Project Status

Feature complete at this point, needs some design tweaking on front end. Further changes can be done to add cleanup process to remove stale/complete games.

Description

This idea came from an activity we did at a Toronto PubCraft, where we make predictions for certain things between two players in a single game. We tracked it on paper, which works fine, but why not something you can access with your phone?

I don't know if this is something I plan to finish. I'm not sure I want to worry about hosting it. Just a fun little thing for me to learn more about Rust in the web development arena.

Setup

Install docker. You will also need postgres development library on your host machine, since this setup just creates a postgres database in docker. I did initially run the rust application in a docker container, but compilation took a minute or longer. If you're using linux you could setup the rust app to run in docker as well, as the performance won't be a problem there.

On mac I have the postgres app i use sometimes for local development, so i added the directory path to the headers to my .bashrc file.

PATH=$PATH:/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/latest/lib

Start up the database:

docker-compose up

I use a shortcut command via bash. Can add to your .bashrc

dockr () {
      local override="docker-compose.$1.yml"
      if [ ! -f "$override" ]; then
          local override="docker-compose.yml"
      else
          shift
      fi
      docker-compose -f "$override" $*
}

Can then run dockr up instead of the above. The rest of the readme uses this for brevity.

Running Migrations

Install diesel-cli:

cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features postgres

Can then use it locally:

# create a migration file
make create_migration name=create_posts
# apply all non applied migrations
make migrate
# redo the last migration
make redo_migrate

Seeds

make seeds

Run the server

After the database is ready, can start the server:

make run_server

Running tests

dockr test up # make sure test server is running
make test_prepare
make test

Can run tests by name via:

make test T=join_game