AceBook

The aim of this project was to work as a team to build a clone of Facebook. We used Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap, HTML and CSS.

Tested using RSpec and Capybara.

Deployed to Heroku with continuous integration implemented: https://acebook-production.herokuapp.com/ (currently old images are not displaying due to being stored locally on heroku).

Quickstart

> git clone https://github.com/AlfonsoGhislieri/acebook-rails-template-simple.git
> cd acebook-rails-template-simple
> bundle install
> bin/rails db:create
> bin/rails db:migrate

> bundle exec rspec # Run the tests to ensure it works
> bin/rails server # Start the server at localhost:3000

Troubleshooting

If you don't have Node.js installed yet, you might run into this error when running rspec:

ExecJS::RuntimeUnavailable:
  Could not find a JavaScript runtime. See https://github.com/rails/execjs for a list of available runtimes.

Rails requires a Javascript runtime to work. The easiest way is to install Node by running brew install node - and then run bundle exec rspec again

Trello Link

Tasks can be seen via our trello board. https://trello.com/b/40IbAHuD/acebooktbc

Database modelling

• Users have many posts, comments, friendships and likes.
• Posts have many comments and likes.

Features

• Users can sign up
• Users can log in/log out
• Users can make posts, both with images and text
• Users can make comments on posts
• Users can like a post
• Users can modify their profile information and upload an avatar
• Avatar displayed on posts and navbar
• Default avatar given to user on account creation
• User can send friend requests to other users
• Users can accept/reject friend requests
• Friends are displayed on home page
• User authentication checks to not let users delete or edit posts/comments of others