Demo: aqueous-ocean-9693.herokuapp.com/
Sillify is an app that makes reading the news a fun and interactive game. It allows users to create a MadLib(tm) style game out of a news article.
WARNING: This app is still in its infancy stages and will require some tweaking.
Current Abilities:
-Able to scrape a CNN news site by hard-coding the URL into the controller. -Able to see a list of common words used in the article -Able to select and highlight the words you want your friens to change.
Future Abilities:
-Bookmarklet to be able to send page to Sillify -User will be able to sign in using Google, Facebook, or Twitter -User will be able to select the words from the story and generate a URL he/she can then share with friends through facebook, twitter, or Google+ -User (recipient) will receive a form with blanks to fill in the nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc... -User (recipient) will be able to read the newly created news story and share with friens (or delete) -Users will be able to read previously "Sillified" articles. -Users will be able to vote up or down "Sillified" articles. -Users will see a list of articles ranked by number of Up-Votes -Users can share funny articles or create their own -Users will see a list of top news stories they can "Sillify" -Users can click the link and begin generating an article to share with friends.
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Ruby version
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Ruby 2.2.1
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System dependencies
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Nokogiri
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Postgres
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Rails
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Database creation
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Database initialization
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rake db:create
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rake db:migrate
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Services (job queues, cache servers, search engines, etc.)
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For now only able to use CNN. This is a limitation of scraping.
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Deployment instructions
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Clone this repository to your local machine
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Bundle Install the gems
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rake the databases
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Please feel free to use a different markup language if you do not plan to run rake doc:app.