/ror-social-scaffold

Its a social media app similar to Facebook.

Primary LanguageRubyMIT LicenseMIT

Social Media Project

This project is was built on top of our knowledge of ActiveRecord associations and tests.

What it does

Its a social media app similar to Facebook.

As a guest user:

  • You will be able to create account/log in.
  • You can see only “Sign in” and “Sign out” page.

As a logged-in user:

  • You will be able to see all users list.
  • You will be able to see selected user page with their user name and all posts written by them (the most recent posts on the top).
  • You will be able to send a friendship invitation.
  • You will see a button “Invite to friendship” next to the name of user who is not your friend yet - on both users’ list and single user page.
  • You will be able to see pending friendship invitations sent to you from other users.
  • You will be able to accept or reject friendships invitation.
  • You will be able to create new posts (text only).
  • You will be able to like/dislike posts (but you can like single post only once).
  • You will be able to add comments to posts.
  • You will be able to see “Timeline” page with posts (with number of likes and comments) written by you and all your friends (the most recent posts on the top).
  • Timeline page is the root page of the app.

Built With

  • Ruby v2.6.5
  • Ruby on Rails v5.2.4

Gems used:

  • Devise (for user authentication)

  • Gravatar image tag (for accessing gravatar images of users)

  • Gems used for testing:

    • Capybara
    • Selenium webdriver
    • Chromedriver helper
    • Database cleaner
    • Rspec-rails
    • Shoulda matchers

  • Rubocop

Live Demo

Live Demo Link

Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

Prerequisites

  • Ruby: 2.6.5
  • Rails: 5.2.3
  • Postgres: >= 9.5

Setup

Install gems with:

bundle install

Setup database with:

   rails db:create
   rails db:migrate

Create users with:

   rails db:seed
   Login with email: 'example-{add a number between 1-16}@microverse.org', and password:'password'

Usage

Start server with:

    rails server

Open http://localhost:3000/ in your browser.

Run tests

    rpsec

Deployment

Live Demo Link

Authors

👤 Tirthajyoti Ghosh

👤 Javier Oriol Correas Sanchez Cuesta

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome! Start by:

  • Forking the project.
  • Cloning the project to your local machine.
  • cd into the project directory.
  • Run git checkout -b your-branch-name.
  • Make your contributions.
  • Push your branch up to your forked repository.
  • Open a Pull Request with a detailed description to the development branch of the original project for a review.

Show your support

Give a ⭐️ if you like this project!

Acknowledgments

  • Microverse
  • Stackoverflow
  • The Odin Project

📝 License

MIT license.