sinansevgi/programming_articles

Simple article-blog page made with ruby on rails.

Programming Articles

This is a rails blogging app designed for publishing programming articles. Users can create articles, categorize these articles, and vote.

• Users can log in to the app, only by typing the username.
• Users are presented with the homepage that includes:
  1. Featured article with full-width image and title in the first row. This is the article with the biggest number of votes.
  2. Latest article on the website right next to the featured article.
  3. List of all categories in order of priority. Each category displayed as a square with its name on the top and its most recent article's title at the bottom. The background image is the image of the most recent article in this category.
• When the user clicks the category name they can see all articles in that category
  1. Articles are sorted by most recent.
  2. Each article displays an image, title, truncated text as a preview, and its author name.
  3. Users can click the Read more button to read the full article.
  4. Users can click the star icon to vote article.
• Each page uses the same top menu and footer
  1. Top menu has user controls and categories listed as sections.
  2. Users can click their username and see their written articles.
• When the user opens the "Write an article" page:
  1. A form with all necessary fields is displayed.
  2. Users can use the rich text field to design their articles.

By default it only has username authentication, but it can be easily replaceable with a devise.

Built With

• Ruby on Rails 6.1
• Bootstrap 4.6
• Ruby 3.0
• Font Awesome

Live Demo

Live Demo Link

Getting Started

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

Prerequisites

You need Ruby & Postgresql in order to run this application on your Machine

Setup

• Install Ruby, Rails, and Postgresql to your computer by following this guide

Install

• Clone this git repository.

      git clone https://github.com/sinansevgi/reformer.git

• Open the terminal in the project directory using 'cd programming_articles'.
• Use bundle install to install Ruby dependencies.
• Use yarn install to install Javascript dependencies.
• From the terminal run rails db:create
• From the terminal run rails db:migrate

Usage

• You can start the server with rails s
• Visit http://localhost:3000 from your browser

Authors

👤 Sinan Sevgi

• GitHub: @sinansevgi
• LinkedIn: @sinansevgi

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!

Feel free to check the issues page.

Show your support

Give an ⭐️ if you like this project!

Acknowledgments

• Design inspiration Nelson Sakwa
• Web Framework Rails
• CSS Framework Bootsrap
• Testing rspec rails
• Icons font-awesome
• Example articles taken from the FreeCodeCamp
• Eager loading tests bullet

📝 License

This project is MIT licensed.