RentReady

Increase your chance of securing the flat you want by creating a tenant CV

RentReady is a web application built in Elixir using the Phoenix framework.

Development

Pre-requisites

First, make sure elixir is installed.

Environment variables

Second, you'll need to create an account with GoCardless Bank Account Data (formerly Nordigen, and different from a normal GoCardless account). This will allow you to generate a secret ID and secret key pair. RentReady expects these values as environment variables GO_CARDLESS_SECRET_ID and GO_CARDLESS_SECRET_KEY.

RentReady also expects a CLOAK_SECRET_KEY environment variable. You can generate this using the iex REPL and running:

iex> 32 |> :crypto.strong_rand_bytes() |> Base.encode64()

Development server

Clone this repository, then, to start the web server:

• Run mix setup to install and setup dependencies
• Run mix phx.server to run the web server

Caching the third-party API

Optionally, you can use a command-line tool like json-caching-proxy to cache responses from GoCardless/Nordigen during development:

npx json-caching-proxy -u https://bankaccountdata.gocardless.com/api/v2 -l

Just remember to update the GoCardless API endpoint in lib/go_cardless/http_client.ex to the proxy URL (e.g. http://localhost:3000/api/v2).