Chitter Challenge

deployed to Heroku on https://chittter-chattter.herokuapp.com/

What is it?

This is Week 4 weekend challenge at Makers Academy. It is a simple Twitter clone that will allow the users to post messages to a public stream. Full instructions of the challenge can be found in INSTRUCTIONS.md.

Features

Users can sign up for Chitter
Users can sign in and sign out
Users can post a peep while signed in
Users can view all peeps in reverse chronological order
Peeps have the names and usernames of the posters
Peeps have the times at which they were made
Passwords are secured
Username and email are unique

Usage

First make sure PostgreSQL was installed properly. Then download and run the app in command line:

$ git clone https://github.com/yyl29/chitter-challenge.git
$ cd chitter-challenge
$ bundle
$ createdb chitter_development
$ rake db:auto_migrate
$ rackup

This will create a database named chitter_development using Postgres, and run this app on a local web server. You can then peep using a browser at http://localhost:9292/.

###Issues and Bug Reports

Feature requests and bug reports can be made here at https://github.com/yyl29/chitter-challenge/issues

Technologies used

Capybara/RSpec for TDD
DataMapper and PostgreSQL to save data
Bcrypt for password encryption

Online Resources