Custom Communication Message Board Challenge

Problem

This is a message board system where posts are on the front page and one clicks through to see the original post with the discussion displayed below.

The program has the following featues:

Self-serve user sign-up, sign-in, and sign-out
Latest postings displayed on main page
User postings displayed on User Profile pages
Postings can be replied to by any user
A list of Users can be displayed

Background

System Dependencies

Ruby 2.3.3
Rails 5
Bootstrap V4
Slim (templating language)

Tests are in Rspec and Spinach.

Project Board

The Trello board for this project can be found at this link.

Starting the app

type rails server in a console window
connect to app on localhost:3000
Click on a message to see conversation details.

Testing the app

This application has a set of rspec tests for the models and spinach tests for the end to end operations that you can run to validate operation and get some description of structure and operation.

command	action
`RAILS_ENV=test rake`	run all tests
`rspec`	unit tests only
`spinach`	end-to-end tests only

Both rspec and spinach tests can be run individually by specifying the name of the test file as an argument to the command.

Both rspec and spinach commands may need to be prefaced with bundle exec to ensure the proper versions are run.