This is a web application where users can form their own virtual teams by buying football players and competing against other users. The objective of a user is to form a team, choosing players who are likely to perform well, keeping in mind a maximum budget allowed for the user.
Initially, a user is presented with statistics of players' performance in the recent past. Also, each user has a starting budget spending which they can pick their squad. At the end of each game, the players' statistics are updated and users who own the players involved in the game are awarded points suitably. The user will also have an option to buy or sell players during the course of the season. When all the matches in the season have come to an end, the users are ranked in decreasing order of total points earned over the time period. The user with the highest total points wins the league.
- Ruby on Rails - The web framework used
- MySQL - The database management system used
- Bootstrap - The front-end framework used
This app was built using Ruby version 2.0.0 and Rails 4.0.8. Other than these, numerous Ruby gems (listed in the Gemfile) are used.
First, Ruby Version Manager(RVM) has to be installed using the command
curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
Other dependencies for Ruby can be installed using
sudo apt-get install libtool libxslt libksba openssl
and
sudo apt-get install libyaml-dev
Finally, Ruby itself can be installed using
rvm install 2.0.0 --with-openssl-dir=$HOME/.rvm/usr
Since RVM is already installed, Rails(which itself is just a Ruby gem) can be easily installed using
gem install rails --version 4.0.8
Other packages need to be installed if you're using a version of Linux.
sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev
Once these are done, clone the repository and in the project root directory, run the command:
bundle install
to install the other necessary Ruby gems.
In the project directory, run the commands rake:db create and rake:db migrate to create the database and the tables with the desired structure. The entries for players and teams tables can be fetched from the Internet using scripts.
In the project root folder, run the following command to launch the app
rails server
Open a browser and navigate to localhost:3000.