MudClub v1.0.5-alpha: Are we there yet?

[iangullo]

MudClub is a lightweight web server application to manage a team sports club.

Requirements:
PostgreSQL v13 server - create a user that can create & manage databases.
Ruby on Rails 7 installation - including node.js & TailwindCSS
Any webserver configured to deploy the Rails application (automated installer assumes nginx).

Installation
There are 2 alternatives to deploy your own MudClub server:

• Use an automated installer - only for Linux systems. (Recommended method)

  • Debian package
  • RPM package
  • Shell script

• Manual install (not for the faint of heart):

  1. clone or decompress source code in a suitable folder.
  2. Run "bundle" in the new mudclub root folder.
  3. Edit config/database.yml to setup the right database access.
  4. Run "rails db:create"
  5. Run "rails db:migrate"
  6. Run "rails db:seed"
  7. Run "rails secret" and paste output to config/secrets.yml
  8. Run "rails assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production"
  9. Optional steps
     • Create a dedicated user account / home folder to host the application.
     • Setup a local service to run server & bind to webserver automatically.

In both cases I strongly recommend that you

• Ensure sufficient storage is available to keep uploaded data (images, etc).
• Setup DNS & SSL to secure access to the webserver.

Changes from v1.0.4-alpha

• NEW FEATURES:
  • ID-card pictures can now be attached to Coach & Player records - typically required to register official competition licenses. Team coaches can upload these - as well as the profile pictures. Only managers are allowed to download ID-card pictures. Icons added to indicate whether all required license pictures have been uploaded in Roster, Player index and show views (profile, id-front and and id-back).
• UI improvements:
  • Re-arranged Topbar menus for easier access of all the different roles to their main resources.
  • Consistent (and better looking) buttons, modal overlays & dropdown menus.
  • Better routing of all main views - with consistent return buttons.
  • Dynamic submit buttons now offer visual cues to let the use know a form submission is being processed.
  • Roster views now show buttons to contact players over their phone - only available for coaches and managers.
  • Revamped personal data forms - better layout.
• Maintenance: The usual share of Bugfixes, Formatting & code refactoring changes.
• Security:
  • Sanitise return url parameters received by the server to ensure only valid ones are processed.
  • Restrict Player/Coach queries to only active ones for non-manager users.

Full Changelog: v1.0-alpha3...v1.0.4-alpha

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