Sinatra powered site for planning events and inviting other users. This is the second Learn.co project for flatiron boot camp.

Project is installed via Bundler Project is coded for development mode

1. clone project
2. run bundle install
3. create party.env from party.env.example
   • see ENV config section for more info
4. source party.env
5. Create database with rake db:create:all
6. Set up with rake db:migrate and rake db:seed
7. Run shotgun to start webserver.

• Required:
  • PARTY_SENDGRID_API_KEY - Send grid api key
  • PARTY_SENDGRID_EMAIL - Send grid TO email address
  • PARTY_HMAC_URl_KEY - used for hmac url key, generate via securerandom, must be 64 bits
  • PARTY_SESSION_KEY - used for session secret, generate via securerandom, must be 64 bits
• Debug (OPTIONAL):
  • PARTY_DISABLE_DNS - set to 'YES' to disable DNS checks for user email.
  • PARTY_DISABLE_EMAIL - set to 'YES' for email request to silently be ignored.

Project uses Send Grid to manage emails for user account creation and passwordless logins. The api only need enough access to send email. Full access is not needed or recommended.

For security reasons, it is not possible to create an admin user via the website. Users must be elevated to someone with DB access. Admin have ability to add/modify/delete Venues and Themes.

Party planner uses before routes for authorization checks. Finer grain control permission are handles in controllers.

• '/pre_auth/*' - Non-Logged in users only
• '/post_auth/*' - Logged in users only
• '/hmac/*' - Must have valid hmac/non-expired to reach.
• '/admin/*' - Logged in admin users only

• Sinatra Template provided by (Corneal)[https://github.com/thebrianemory/corneal] gem
• Favicon provided by (freefavicon)[https://www.freefavicon.com]
• Frontend powered by (bootstrap)[https://getbootstrap.com]
• Backend powered by (Sinatra)[http://sinatrarb.com/] and (Active Record)[https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_basics.html]