/stay-in-touch

This repo includes intial code for social media app. Its purpose is to be a starting point for Microverse students.

Primary LanguageRuby

Stay In Touch

Stay In Touch is a Social Media App, created using the RoRSocialScaffold by Microverse. We implemented a Friendship system where you can add/invite to be friends as well as a decline feature. We also added a friend list in the right side so people can see who befriended who.

Built With

  • Ruby v2.7.0
  • Ruby on Rails v5.2.4

Live Demo

SIT - Social Media

Getting Started

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

Prerequisites

Ruby: 2.6.3 Rails: 5.2.3 Postgres: >=9.5

Setup

Instal gems with:

bundle install

Setup database with:

   rails db:create
   rails db:migrate

Usage

Start server with:

    rails server

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

Run tests

    rpsec --format documentation

Deployment

In order to deploy this app to Heroku follow the steps below

Install the Heroku CLI available here

After that type the command to create the app and add the heroku repository to your project

    heroku create

Then deploy the app.

    git push -u heroku {you-branch}:master

Change {your-branch} for the name of your local branch

Follow the instructions on your terminal to get the URL where your app was deployed

Finally run the command to create your database and tables on Heroku's server

    heroku run rails db:migrate

Authors

👤 Steven Jack Chung

👤 Marcelo Fernandes

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!

Feel free to check the issues page.

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