Project 2 - Appreciation App
Gratitude on the Go!
Here is the link to use the app: https://sei01-appreciationapp.herokuapp.com/
Here are the features of the Appreciation App
Technologies used:
- Ruby
- Sinatra
- Postgresql
- Heroku
- HTML/CSS/Javascript
While signed out
- Users can sign in.
- They can view wall posts, but cannot add posts to the wall until signed in.
When signed in
- Users can view public wall posts by themselves/other users that convey gratitude to each other.
- These "posts" take the form of text and images.
- Users can comment on wall posts.
Challenges faced, and how I tackled them:
- Timestamps and adapting them to erb/html. The postgresql docs, assistance from instructor and classes helped with translating default timestamps to something more readable (e.g.
DateTime.parse(post["timestamp"]).strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")) - Posting comments caused fresh wall posts to be created. I implemented an if-statement to differentiate when a user is posting a comment or a wall post.
- Initially all comments would get posted to all posts. I solved this by implementing an erb if-statement that checked a condition that the wall post's ID matched the comments post_ID.
Other ways I solved for general problems were:
- Getting help from wiser teachers
- Googling
- W3Schools
- Postgresql/Sinatra/Ruby documentation