Greencar

GreenCar is a ride-sharing web application to demo a heuristic algorithm for solving a novel Travelling Salesman Problem

Stack

• Spring MVC (3.2.4.RELEASE)
• Hibernate (4.2.5.Final)
• PostgreSQL
• Maven
• Jetty (6.1.25)
• Twitter Bootstrap (3.0.0)
• jQuery (1.10.2)
• Backbone.js (1.0.0)
• Underscore.js (1.5.2)

Setting up locally

• Clone the project

git clone https://bitbucket.org/teerexinc/greencar.git

• Download and install PostgreSQL

• Download a client to connect to your local PostgreSQL server.

• Create a database called "greencar"

• Add the dayaUpdate the dbURL bean in db-psql.xml using the credential of the database created (see context.xml to make some changes; tables created automatically).

value="postgres://[USERNAME]:[PASSWORD]@[HOST]:[PORT]/[DATABASE_NAME]"

• Go to project directory, run

mvn -D jetty.port=9999 jetty:run

• Go to http://localhost:9999/

Deploying to Heroku

• Create a Heroku account and download Heroku toolbelt

• Create an instance on Heroku

heroku create

• setup a free instance of PostgreSQL database server on heroku via the web portal, Check if database environment variable is created

heroku config

• Push the code on Heroku

git push heroku master

• Open the app

heroku open

The code base of this project is based on the following boiler plates.

• https://github.com/ParallelBrains/Spring-Hibernate-PostgreSQL-Maven-Jetty
• https://github.com/nicolatassini/Heroku-J2EE-Spring-MVC---Hibernate---PostgreSQL----Maven---Jetty
• https://github.com/heroku/devcenter-spring-mvc-hibernate
• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-spring-mvc-hibernate