README

Main Website of Red Panda Software.

Requirements

• Ruby 3.4 or higher
• Rails 8
• Docker with PostgreSQL set up for local development

Local Development

The project expects a local PostgreSQL database, preferable with docker to run. This can be achieved by running the following commands, which will set up a postgreSQL database with the correct account setup, and make the application work out of the box:

# Pull the required image, we use PostgreSQL 18
docker pull postgres:18 

# Set up the container, and configure the password for the postgres user.
# We will use the postgres user to create all DBs etc, on production we will
# have a dedicated user and database.
docker run --name postgres-18 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD="some-secret-password" -d -p 5432:5432 postgres:18

Then set your DATABASE_PASSWORD in our .env.*.local files to match the ones used in the container. The application will work out of the box with it.