FarhanGazi/SocialZ

A simple social-network built in Ruby on Rails

SocialZ

https://socialzeta.herokuapp.com/

SocialZ is a open source social network built in Ruby on Rails.

In this platform users can:

• upload posts with photos, then edit or destry them.
• The posts are votable and commentable by the other users.
• destroy comments
• See all the other user's posts and profiles
• Edit user data

Ruby version:

• 2.5.1

Rails version:

• 5.2.1

Database:

• Postgresql

Environments setup:

1. follow this (or other) guides to install ruby on rails on your device: (tutorial) https://gorails.com/setup/ubuntu/18.10

2. install postgresql in your system: (tutorial) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LwI4HMR_Eg

3. clone this repository by executing this commands in your terminal:

$ git clone https://github.com/FarhanGazi/SocialZ.git

Dasabate setup:

4. move to the config directory

$ cd ~/SocialZ/config

5. open the database.yml file

6. edit the file

default: &default
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  username: YOUR POSTGRESQL USER_NAME
  password: YOUR POSTGRESQL USER_PASSWORD
  ...

Database creation:

7. write these terminal commands:

$ cd ..
$ rake db:setup

Database initialization:

8. then create the tables by executing the migrations:

$ rake db:migrate

Run the project in local:

9. write the terminal command inside the porject directory:

$ bin/rails s

Technical details:

• SocialZ use the rails active storage to store the images
• The comment are created and deleted by using AJAX
• AJAX is used also when you like or delete the posts from your profile or from the home.
• the app is stored in heroku with a hobby-dev plan, so it won't store the active storage like images more then 30 minutes.

Some screenshots...