Acebook - README

An original social networking application developed in rails

We also used a Trello board as a team of 4 to estimate work, plan sprints, and implement features.

Getting Started

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

Ruby version 2.6.3 is used. To check which version of Ruby you have installed

$ ruby -v

Rails version 6.0.0 is used. To check which version of Rails you have installed

$ rails -v

Tech used	What does it do?	How we used it
Ruby ~> v2.6.3	Backend, (MVC)	In MVC layers
Rails ~> v6.0.0	Web App framework	For exactly that
Devise	Authentication for rails apps	Auth and tracking sessions
ActiveStorage	Stores files referentially	Storing uploaded user profile images
ActiveRecord	Built-in ORM for Rails	Creating DB Migrations and creating/joining tables
ImageMagick	Image manipulating software	Shrinking/editing images in-situ in views
ActionCable	Opens websockets to create persisted connection	Built a live chat
RSpec	Ruby testing framework	To test controllers/models
Capybara	Feature testing framework	To test features
POSTGRESQL	Database Management System	To store all of our data both locally and in production
Travis	CI Tool	To make sure pull requests weren't breaking our functionality
Heroku	App Hosting Service	To deploy our app
CodeClimate	Code quality checking tool	Check maintainability/code coverage
Factory Bot	Testing library	Stubbing persistent data for testing purposes
Bootstrap	CSS Framework	Make it look PRETTY!
AWS Storage (S3)	Cloud Storage API	Permanently store uploaded images/files via our Heroku app
JQuery	Front-end JS Library	Add front-end dynamic behaviour

To get a development env running:

$ sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linuxbrew/install/master/install.sh)"  - brew install ImageMagick

$ bundle install

$ rails db:migrate

$ rails server