GADDIT

Gaddit is a forum web application that will let you follow channels you are interested in, read the latest posts and write your posts or comments.

Technology included

Try Gaddit here
You could skip creating an account by using the logins below:
- Email: abby.hansen@stoltenberg.name
- Password: chicken

You could sign up via the "sign up" button in the navigator bar and login.
If you checked the "remember me" box, your login status would last two weeks, except log out.
Once you log in successfully, all the latest posts under the followed channels will be displayed on the user's homepage in DESC order.
Click "read more" to check the post's content and comments underneath.
You could leave comments on any post page you are interested in, whether under the followed channel or not.
On each post page, you could create or delete your comment below the post.
Click the channel name at the bottom of each post will head to the channel page.
Click "All channels" in the navigator to index all the channels. You could choose to join or leave the channels.
All the posts should be created under one of the followed channels.

Created a scope flowchart showing all four main models: user, channel, post and comment
Draw out the model associations to clear the whole structure
List all the potential routes and features on each page.

Plan the scope and features to build and follow the daily schedule
Create many-many and one-many associations correctly.
Use partials to DRY up the post and comments views and make them readable.
Test every function and use the rails console to find any conflicts or bugs.
Read the Heroku log to figure out any errors that need to fix.
Challenging part:
- Using strong params and hidden data in forms to pass the data I need to the next page.
- CSS styling and integrating materialcss into the picture.
Future TODOs:
- Reset passwords
- Reply comments
- Create new channels