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#Stempirical

Stempirical is a crowdsourced collection of age appropriate and engaging science experiments. What sets this site apart from similar sites is that in addition to showing the materials and instructions (the how), we also explore the scientific explanations behind the experiment (the why). Stempirical is a space where rainy-day science experiments are both entertaining and educational.

This project was create by two Ruby on Rails developers, Aaron Wiggins and Daisy Magnus, and one Front End Developer, Lindsey Miller, from The Iron Yard Durham.

Check out our individual github profiles by clicking on our names to see more of our work.

  • A link to our ERD to get a better understanding of our database structure
  • Stempirical to see our site live!

###To Run the App Locally

  • Clone our repo with this link here
  • bin/rake db:migrate
  • bin/rake db:seed
  • bin/rails server
  • Navigate to your localhost in your browser

###To Upload Your Own Photos on Localhost

  • We've used the gem paperclip for uploaded files.
  • You'll need to create an amazon web services account here.
  • Create a bucket, name it whatever you want. This will be where your photos are stored.
  • You'll need to genereate your on AWS ID and KEY. Once you do, save those as local environment variables.
  • Our env variables are saved in the application.rb file in the config folder.
  • Change stempirical to whatever you named your bucket on your AWS account.
  • If your local env variables are saved with the same name as ours, that's all you have to do. If you created your own, you'll replace ours with whatever yours are named.
  • Restart your terminal and you will be able to upload your own photos to localhost.

###Gems We've Used