The purpose of this app is to do exploration into Ruby on Rails 6 and to test out gems and features that may normally be difficult or complex to execute.

• This app uses the MySql Sakila Video database (with encrypted credentials through the credentials.yml.enc file).
• The first challenge was to integrate Rails with an already-existing database instead of creating one from scratch. And also to be able to modify that existing database using Active Record and Migrations.

This app also uses of both modern and historical methods of live reloading:

Since this app is using Webpacker, it makes use of the ./bin/webpack-dev-server in order to rebuild the JavaScript files upon changes.

However, this method of live reloading only works for the JavaScript portion of the app and not the html.erb files.

In order to reload html.erb upon changes, we are using rack-livereload along with guard.

Normally this would require several terminals to be open at once, but this app uses the Overmind process manager along with a Procfile.dev to run all 3 commands at once.

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This also means the application will start on port 5000 instead of 3000.

Special thanks to Vincent Voyer for this incredible setup guide: https://dev.to/vvo/a-rails-6-setup-guide-for-2019-and-2020-hf5