/Blog-App

This is a fullstack blog app built with ruby and rails.

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Blog App


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📖 [Blog App]

This is a fullstack blog application. A user can create an account to log in and post articles. In addition, each user is granted the chance to interact with other users posts by adding comments and liking posts. It uses crud methods to create, read, edit and delete posts.

Tech Stack

Client
  • HTML, CSS
  • JavaScript
Server
  • Ruby on Rails
Database

Steps of creating the application:

  • 1: Creating a data model.
  • 2: Validations and Model specs.
  • 3: Processing data in models.
  • 4: Setup and controllers.
  • 5: Controllers specs.
  • 6: Views.
  • 7: Forms.
  • 8: Integration specs for Views and fixing n+1 problems.
  • 9: Add Devise.
  • 10: Add authorization rules.
  • 11: Add API endpoints.

Key features :

  • Create an account
  • All users and their posts can be displayed
  • Create a post
  • Edit a post
  • Delete a post

ERD diagram

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Deployment

[Video] Coming soon [Live demo] Coming soon

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💻 Getting Started

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To get a local copy up and running, follow these steps.

Prerequisites

In order to run this project you need the following:

  • git
  • Ruby
  • rails
  • psql

Setup

Clone this repository:

  git clone https://github.com/TracyMuso/Blog-App.git

Go to your project

  cd my-folder

Install

Important! You need to have rspec installed in your computer

Install this projects dependencies with:

  bundle install

Usage

To run the project, execute the following command:

  rails server or rails s

Run tests

To run tests, run the following command:

  rspec spec spec/file_spec.rb

👥 Authors

👤 Tracy Musongole

👤 Danny Baraka

Future Features

  • Account creation

    • Users will be able to create accounts to log in or out

  • Post creation and interaction

    • Users will be able to create, read, edit and delete posts
    • Users will also be able to like and comment on each others posts

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!

Feel free to check the issues page.

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🙏 Acknowledgments

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  • Thanks to Microverse for giving this opportunity to learn ...
  • Code Reviewers & Coding Partners.
  • Hat tip to anyone whose code was used.
  • Inspiration.

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📝 License

This project is MIT licensed.

NOTE: we recommend using the MIT license - you can set it up quickly by using templates available on GitHub. You can also use any other license if you wish.

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