Requirements

• A ruby version manager such as rvm or rbenv
• Ruby 3.2.3 (Installed via ruby manager ^)
• PostgreSQL, if you're not using Docker.
• npm and yarn (npm install -g yarn)

Installation

With Docker

Build and start the application with docker compose up. Once the application has successfully started, you should be able to visit it at http://localhost:3000/

Run commands in docker with the bin/dc helper script on macos or Linux.

$ bin/dc rails db:setup
$ bin/dc rails test

Or by prefacing rails commands with docker compose run stocks.

$ docker compose run stocks rails db:setup
$ docker compose run stocks rails test

Mac & Linux Users

• Run setup: bin/setup
• Run the Rails server locally: bin/dev

Windows

It is strongly recommend to use Docker. See instructions above.

URL

Access the app via localhost:5000

About Stocks in the Future

Mission

Stocks in the Future is a program with the mission of developing highly motivated middle school students who are eager to learn and dedicated to attending class through the use of incentives coupled with a financial literacy curriculum focused on investing that reinforces Math, Language Arts and Social Studies. Stocks in the Future pushes to educate, encourage, and empower the next generation of financially-literate individuals.

Ruby for Good

If you have any questions about an issue, comment on the issue, open a new issue, or ask in [the RubyForGood slack] (https://join.slack.com/t/rubyforgood/shared_invite/zt-2k5ezv241-Ia2Iac3amxDS8CuhOr69ZA). Stocks-in-the-future has a #stocks-in-the-future channel in the Slack. Feel free to join the community!

Contributing

• Please create a new branch for each request
• Branch name should include issue number. For example: branchname-23