It will come a time when you will have to decide whether to maintain a Rails project or not.
If you want to seriously consider it, you should follow these 10 steps:
1. Setup the development environment
Git clone the repository and try to start the server. Is the README
clear enough? Can you follow the steps in the file and easily get started?
A lot of projects will have a README
that is out of date and/or instructions that don't work right off the bat.
Most of the projects will define guidelines like these:
- Configure your
config/database.yml
- Configure your
.env
file
- Setup the database
rake db:create db:migrate db:seed
- Start the server
rails server
The best projects will have a one-liner that will setup the entire environment for you.
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