Chitter Challenge

Week 4 weekend challenge to create a web application - twitter clone - which will allow user to signup,login and post messages to the public stream. More information about the task can be found here

Features

user should be able to sign up for Chitter
user should be able to log in to Chitter
user should be able to log out of Chitter
user should be able to post a message (peep) to Chitter
user should be able to see all peeps in reverse chronological order even if not logged in
user should be able to see the time at which each message (peep) was posted

Technologies & Principles

Ruby
Sinatra
Capybara
OOD, TDD, SOLID
Testing with RSpec

Installing & Testing

$ git clone https://github.com/irynahowarth/chitter-challenge
$ bundle
$ createdb chitter_development
$ rake auto_migrate
$ rspec
$ rackup

To see application online use this heroku link

Example of using the System

Implementation

Code is finished with basic functionality.

Main functionality implemented:

User

Functionality	Descriprion
Sign up	Register to use Chitter with name/username/email/password
Log in	Authorise in a system to be able to post messages
Log out	Exit the system so no one can post messages from my username
View peeps	View messages(peeps) from other system users
Post peep	Post a message(peep) so people can read what user wants to say

Peep

Functionality	Descriprion
Has User	Associated with peep
Has time	of creation

What can be improved

reply to a peep from another user
provide password restore prompt