The social changes occurring as a result of COVID-19 have inspired me to try and develop a simple social network that Terps can use to find and interact with other terps!. Two major factors have pushed me to start this project.
Every time I open r/UMD or twitter I always see multiple posts about loneliness, depression or requests to hangout or game together.
My Brother is currently a Freshman in College and he has been at Home for the entirety of the semester. He has not made any new friends and he has no one to hang out with besides other people from his high school that decided to stay at home. When I was a Freshman I was lucky enough to live in the Dorms at UMD and during that year, it is safe to say that I've established life long friendships and connections with people I have never met before. This blaring disparity between my experiences and my brother's is hard to just sit back and watch. I thought this was the time to try to do something about it and here we are.
Ensure you have windows set up with wsl and ubuntu all set up as well. For help please follow the instructions at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 . Ignore wsl2 installation steps and make sure you install Ubuntu20.04 LTS. Then run:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
This app requires Ruby version 2.7.1. I coded this using ruby that I installed using the Ruby Version Manager(rvm). Follow the instructions in https://gorails.com/setup/ubuntu/20.04#ruby-rvm and install Ruby-2.7.1.
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x |sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo 'deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt install yarn
yarn install --check-files
sudo apt-get install postgresql libpq-dev
sudo -u postgres createuser --interactive
Set op Postgresql with your own username and password. Remember yout credentials for later!
gem install rails -v 6.0.3.4
gem install bundler:2.1.4
gem install pg
git clone https://github.com/arvindavema/NoMoreLonelyTerps.git
cd NoMoreLonelyTerps
bundle install
Find all the places in config/database.yml that says username: or password: and replace the fields with your postgresql user's username and password. Then run:
rake db:setup
rake db:migrate
run:
rails s
Then open http://localhost:3000/ in your prefered browser.
Add Users' Friends' posts to Users' feeds along with the Users' posts
Notice that the sign up email has to end with "terpmail.umd.edu". This is to make the site Terp exclusive.
Currently, at most one image can be uploaded per post via the "Choose File" button. The goal is to have at most 4 images per post.
When a post is successfully created, the user is redirected to the post's page.
The post is displayed at the top of the page with a comment section underneath it.
Upon scrolling down, you will find a comment section. Comments are only visible on the post's page. They do not show on user feeds or home feeds.
The User's Home tab is identical to their Feed tab except the User's friends' posts are included under the user's "Feed" tab while only the User's own posts are shown under the Home tab. Posts are chronologically sorted with newest at the top of either pages.
The website has a primitive chat function where users within a chat room can chat with eachother in real time!
