Unearthing mankind's best quotes, one epigraph at a time
This webapp is being developed by me, Fred Rocha, in public. You can tag along for the adventure here.
Some novelists choose to open their books with a quote from another writer. This is called an epigraph. These quotes taken out of their original context are given a new life, necessarily detached from the former one. Since writers are the utmost specialists in their fields, and since the beginning of a work has such relevance to the whole, I risk saying that these selected quotes will necessarily be the crème de la crème of the world’s literature. Change my mind.
This website / webapp will be a repository for those epigraphs. Send your own favorites.
Thanks to Giacomo Miceli for reminding me this was a worthwhile pursuit, Madalena Marques for the constant inspiration and out-of-the-box thinking, and Christina Casnellie for the work residency in London, with the best food in town and a steady stream of priceless epigraphs.
Book covers are being fetched from Literal.club's API. Thank you, guys!
sudo apt update
sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib libpq-dev
sudo -u postgres createuser -s <your-username> -P
bundle install
xcode-select --install
brew update
brew install postgresql
From the root of the project, do:
bundle install
brew services start postgresql
psql postgres
Key in:
CREATE ROLE fred WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'pantera1234';
ALTER ROLE fred CREATEDB;
bin/rails db:create db:migrate db:seed
You're done
Run this command from the root of the project (it also runs the Puma server for you):
./bin/dev