/instagram

Weeks 9 - 10 @ Makers Academy - Rails, Angular, Web Sockets

Primary LanguageRuby

Instagram Clone

This was the project set for Weeks 9 and 10 at Makers Academy. The aim of the project was to further develop our skills in Ruby on Rails, Capybara and Rspec, Poltergeist while introducing us to how we would implement some of the more common features seen in today's most popular web apps.

Objectives

  • To delve further into the Rails framework folder structure
  • Introduction to testing with Poltergeist
  • Integration of commonly used gems in Rails for web apps

Technologies used

  • Ruby
  • Rails
  • Postgresql
  • Capybara
  • Rspec
  • Devise
  • Paperclip
  • Stripe payment system
  • Poltergeist
  • Amazon Web Services S3
  • Bootstrap
  • Google Maps API
  • Heroku
  • Websockets
  • Javascript

Areas of improvement

  • Front end styling

How to run the program

git clone https://github.com/codepreneur/instagram
cd instagram
bin/rails s

Visit http://localhost:3000/posts in your browser.

How to run tests

cd instagram
rspec