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Texting App

By Olivia Hinton & Bang Nguyen | 9/26/16

Description

An app that lets users send text messages to their friends!

General Setup Instructions

  • Clone this repository
  • Install gems by running command $ bundle in the terminal
  • Open another terminal tab and type postgres to start PostgreSQL database
  • Return to first terminal tab and run rails db:create to create the databases
  • Run rails db:migrate db:test:prepare to create tables
  • Run rails db:seed to seed the database
  • Launch the Rails server by running command $ rails s in the terminal
  • Launch site by visiting localhost:3000 in browser

User Stories

As a user I want to:

  • As a user, I want to send a text message to a phone number, so that I can send texts from the web. Hint: Follow along with the lesson.
  • As a user, I want to save contacts to an address book, so that it's easy to text them again without re-typing their phone number.
  • As a user, I want to send a message to more than one person at once, so that I can mass text my friends.

Tech Used

  • Ruby on Rails (v. 5.0.0.1)
  • Twilio
  • Active Record
  • PostgreSQL
  • AJAX
  • jQuery
  • Bootstrap/SCSS

License

This software is licensed under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2016 **Olivia Hinton & Bang Nguyen **