#Pocket Museum

What is Pocket Museum?

A small demo application I built for saving a gallery of your favorite artworks. Basic project for learning single page app architecture using Backbone.js and Rails.

Demo

Check it out!

Watch the screencast

##Set Up (Mac OS X)

1. brew install postgres
2. Install Postgres.app
3. run bundle install
4. Create a config/database.yml file. In it, paste the contents of this file. You can leave the username and password blank.
5. run rake db:create db:migrate
6. run rake db:seed

The seed data contains a few Fat Cat Artworks to get you started, go ahread and log in with the following credentials:

email:    admin@test.com
password: passw0rd

Login as that user to view some fat cats and start collecting your own.

How It Works

• Users can manage images and information about artworks into the database
• Users can edit their profiles
• Users can favorite artworks
• Users can appreciate renaissance cats
• Rails supports all server-side controllers
• Backbone supports all the client-side responsibility

Resources:

• HAML Docs
• Backbone Docs
• Rails Docs
• Codeschool Backbone Tutorials
• Developing Backbone.js Fundamentals e-book
• Adding Backbone and Rails to an Existing App

Questions

Pocket Museum is completely open source, intended as a fun way to learn how to build a single page app with Backbone and Rails - if you have any questions or concerns please let me know by filing an issue.

Ruby on Rails

This application requires:

• Ruby 2.0.0
• Rails 4.1.0