AppCritic

An app for sharing criticism and ratings of apps.

This is an MVP version of twitter. I've adapted it to share opinions about specific apps. Users can add a new app for everyone to critique, and they can follow eachother as well.

Video Presentation

Check out the video presentation for this project here!

Screenshots

Built With

Ruby 2.6.5
Rubocop
RSpec
Visual Studio Code

Live Demo

Check out the live demo here

Prerequisites

Make sure you install Ruby and have the following packages installed before continuing:

$ gem install bundler rspec

Install

To test AppCritic locally, clone the repository, navigate to it's containing directory, and run:

$ bundle install
$ rails db:migrate

This should install all ruby gems. Make sure you also have a proper application.yml file with your Cloudinary credentials. Example:

---
development:
  cloud_name: my_cloud_name
  api_key: '123123132123123'
  api_secret: xqPEy_xXxXxXXXxxxxXXXXxxXXx
  enhance_image_tag: true
  static_file_support: false
production:
  cloud_name: my_cloud_name
  api_key: '123123132123123'
  api_secret: xqPEy_xXxXxXXXxxxxXXXXxxXXx
  enhance_image_tag: true
  static_file_support: true
test:
  cloud_name: my_cloud_name
  api_key: '123123132123123'
  api_secret: xqPEy_xXxXxXXXxxxxXXXXxxXXx
  enhance_image_tag: true
  static_file_support: false

Run tests

Running rspec will test AppCritic's functionalities. Navigate the spec directory to find out how the tests are performed.

Deployment

You may deploy AppCritic on Heroku by running the following commands in the repo directory:

$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master
$ figaro heroku:set -e production
$ heroku open

Author

Oscar Mier

Github: @voscarmv
Twitter: @voscarmv
Linkedin: Oscar Mier

Future features and improvements

Add Instant Messaging.
Add user tagging.
Add rich text posts with images (to share memes).

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!

Feel free to check the issues page.

Show your support

Give a ⭐️ if you like this project!

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Alexis and Leonardo for their help with this project!

📝 License

This project is MIT licensed.

voscarmv/app_critic