/instagram-challenge

Rebuild Instagram

Primary LanguageCSS

Instagram Clone

A site developed in Ruby on Rails and Javascript.

Demo

https://murmuring-island-90328.herokuapp.com/mannieg

Technologies used

  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Postgres
  • RSpec
  • Capybara
  • Devise
  • Paperclip
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Bootstrap
  • Heroku
  • Javascript
  • AJAX
  • Waffle (Managing the project)

Prerequisites

  • Rails 4.2.7.1
  • Postgres
  • ImageMagick
  • PhantomJS
  • AWS account with S3
  • Facebook developer account

Installation Instructions

For testing you will need PhantomJS installed on your OS:

brew install phantomjs

You will also need to install ImageMagick:

brew install imagemagick

Run bundle install:

bundle install

Create the database and run migrations:

rake db:create
rake db:migrate

Running rails in development mode

After running the below command site should be accessible via your browser: http://localhost:3000 as long as no custom changes have been made.

rails s

Testing the application

rspec

Profile view

ScreenShot

Comment/Like view

ScreenShot

Working on:

  • Follows/Unfollow
  • Pagination
  • Layout improvements
  • Search by username
  • Autosuggestions on search