This is an app created for #BaseballHackDay on 25 March 2017
When a baseball game is in a potential walkoff situation,
our app will send out a tweet via the Twitter account @walkoffbot.
This way you can stay informed about all the season's most exciting games!

Contributors:
@chrishagan
@davidwkaiser
@h12
@tejaykodali

Tech Stack:
Rails
MLB Gameday API
Twitter API

DEPLOYMENT NOTE: When we deployed to Heroku, we kept getting errors related to the schedulers, it would try to run and populate the Game items BEFORE we could run the DB migrations. To make this work, we needed to comment out line 7 in scheduler.rb so that it would not start and push, then run the migrations, then restore line 7 and push again. Then it all worked.

Also, since the cron runs at 5 am, when we deployed it at 3 pm, we needed to populate the games manually via Heroku's Rails Console:

Game.populate
games = Game.where.not(state: "POSTGAME")

Twitter login credentials need to be manually entered into Heroku via the Rails console.

Research confirmed that on Heroku's free hosting plan this app will spin down after a period of inactivity. We have since upgraded the hosting for this project so that it will run constantly. It appears that all of the processes are working, including the cron to populate the games daily.