Ruby on Rails Capstone Project.

In this project, I redesigned a twitter to create opinions about movies. I used a lot of knowledge acquired throughout the Ruby on Rails section, Model/View/Controller concepts, some of bootstrap from previous HTML & CSS, among other knowledge acquired on Microverse to create an MVP for this app.

The project consists of a Sing up/Login with username as the login information (as required). The user has a photo to show on his profile/opinions and a cover image that shows on his profile. The images should be provided as URL because I can't store images on heroku database. If no image is informed, or an invalid URL the app will show a default one instead.

Without logging in the user can see all user's opinions on a central 'timeline' and on the right a list of users who are registered.

Logged in the user see a timeline with only opinions of the ones he follows and his own opinions. On that timeline, he can edit/delete his own opinions and on other user's opinions, he can 'retweet' (the created copied opinion will have a link for the original user who created it).

There is another view for the user profile, that shows a cover image above the specific user opinions and profile information on the right.

The functionality to follow/unfollow is very intuitive. '+' buttons to follow close to not followed users are shown as well as an explicit button to follow/unfollow on the profile user

Screen Home Page

Main Page

User Page

Built With

Ruby,
Ruby on Rails,
SCSS,
Bootstrap,
Font Awesome,
RSpec(Testing)
Capybara(Testing)
Bullet(Developing)

Live Demo

Live Demo Link

Video Presentation

Project Presentation

Getting Started

You can get a local copy of the repository please run the following commands on your terminal:

$ cd <folder>

$ git clone git@github.com:Stricks1/cap-twitter.git

You need to install the required gems:

$ bundle install

Migrate the database

$ rake db:migrate

If you want to prepopulate the database you can run the seed.rb file(not required):

$ rake db:seed

And run the server:

$ rails server

To navigate on the app you can enter http://localhost:3000/ on your browser, set a new User and you are ready to log in.

Tests

The tests were created with RSpec, to run the tests you should open the app folder on console and run

$ rspec

It will run the 3 test files:

spec/feature/features_spec.rb
spec/models/following_spec.rb
spec/models/user_spec.rb

Authors

👤 Author

Gabriel Malheiros Silveira

Github: @Stricks1
E-mail: Gabriel Silveira
Linkedin: Gabriel Silveira
Twitter: @Gabriel_Stricks

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!

Feel free to check the issues page.

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Acknowledgments

Project Capstone from Microverse HTML & CSS curriculum
Design idea (layout, colors, font) was inspired by Gregoire Vella, you can find the original idea on Behance