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These will be our main users. Usually for user objects, I’d use something like Devise to help manage authentication; however, that’s overkill for what we need. So we can simplify things by running:
I've used Heroku's pipeline and CI in other production apps, but in those places everything was already set up. I've always found this aspect of Heroku a bit intimidating, but creating this fun little app allowed me to get familiar with the features, particularly the CI. There's still some work to be done to move this app to production. For example, a moderation feature is necessary to stop people from submitting weird affirmations, and some type of limitation on the texts would be good to limit costs. There's a lot of scope to play around with, so have fun!
Composing and sending the affirmation text is going to happen in a lib file, rake task, and job. Rake is a library that allows developers to create and manage tasks.