/hacker_news

An Epicodus pair exercise to practice building a Ruby on Rails app.

Primary LanguageRuby

Hacker News

A clone of Hacker News, a site that allows users to post links to tech-related articles/sites.

By Molly McGlone and James Turello, September 2016

Description:

An Epicodus pair exercise to practice building a basic Ruby on Rails app.

User Stories:

  • As a user, I want to post a link, so that I can share it with other hackers.
  • As a user, I want to vote up other people's links, so that I can promote links that I like.
  • As a user, I want the links with the most votes to be listed first, so that I can know what's most popular.
  • As a user, I want to comment on a link, so that I can have a discussion about the article that was submitted.

Installation

  • git clone https://github.com/mollykmcglone/hacker_news.git
  • gem install rails
  • bundle install
  • rake db:create
  • rake db:migrate
  • rake db:test:prepare

Running / Development

Known Issues/Bugs

  • None.

Support and contact details

Please contact me with any questions, concerns, or ideas at mollykmcglone@gmail.com

Technologies Used

  • Ruby
  • Rails
  • PostgreSQL
  • HTML/CSS
  • Bootstrap

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Molly McGlone and James Turello