Bloggo

Bloggo is a social network Web App that allows its user to create blogs for creating content (posts) and receive feedbacks from other users with comments and reactions (like or dislike). Also provide some stats of the social network, like the most used Tags on the entire database and the most upvoted Posts. Users can also follow their favorites blogs. A user that creates a blog is called "Bloggoer", and can appoint "Editor" other users, who can create content in the blog they are editor of.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

Needed ruby-2.5.1 and the gem rails-5.2.1 for running this project

For installing Ruby see https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/installation/

Installing

Just clone the repository with git clone https://github.com/Mikyxello/Bloggo.git, install all needed gems with

bundle install

Run database's migrations with

rake db:migrate

Then setup the database (it will take a few minutes) with

rake db:setup

And run the server with

rails server

It will show the following output

=> Booting Puma
=> Rails 5.2.0 application starting in development 
=> Run `rails server -h` for more startup options
Puma starting in single mode...
* Version 3.12.0 (ruby 2.5.1-p57), codename: Llamas in Pajamas
* Min threads: 5, max threads: 5
* Environment: development
* Listening on tcp://0.0.0.0:3000
Use Ctrl-C to stop

Then you can try to navigate using your browser using the URL localhost:3000/

And stop it anytime with Ctrl-C

Running the tests

For running cucumber tests use

rake cucumber

For running rspec tests use

bundle exec rspec

or just rspec

Built With

Ruby on Rails - The web framework used for backend
Bootstrap - Frontend library (CSS and JS)
Unsplash - External API for letting users get free images to use
Photoeditor - External API for letting users modify images
Agor - External API for letting users make polls
ParallelDots - External API for generate automatic tags

Authors

Michele Anselmi - Post and Comment handling - Mikyxello
Simone Staffa - Login and Registration handling - lim996
Andrea Misuraca - Profile and Blog handling - andreamisu
Simone Silvestri - Bloggo Search and API interaction - mrPsycox

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU License - see the LICENSE.md file for details