golerts

Golerts

A simple RESTful Notification service written in Go. This will primarily be used with iOS push notifications

Setup

This application is configured to run on Heroku. As such, there are some steps to follow to get it running in your local.

1. Remove the .git directory and create a fresh one for your project

   $ rm -rf .git
   $ git init .
   

2. Install Heroku Toolbelt:

   Via Homebrew:

   $ brew install heroku
   

   Or Via Heroku

3. Create your .env file

   $ cp env.example .env
   

4. Update any values in .env as needed

5. Run the application locally

   $ go install && heroku local
   

Deploying

Assuming you have the proper heroku app setup + git remote

1. Remove vendor and Godeps from .gitignore

2. Save and commit dependencies

   $ godep save
   $ git commit -am "initial import of dependencies for heroku"
   

3. Deploy

   $ git push heroku [BRANCH]:master
   

Migrations

You can run the migrations an seeds located in the migrates directory to get your database in the most recent state.

NB: After release, new migrate and seeds files should be created to incremental updates