Snack!

A social media platform for connecting with other language learners. Gothenburg, Sweden only for now.

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Deployed

You can see a working copy at snackar.herokuapp.com

Built With

• Rails
• HAML
• Devise
• ZURB Foundation
• Thredded (forums)
• has_friendship
• acts_as_taggable_on
• Faker
• Cucumber / Capybara
• Rspec
• Travis
• Coveralls

Props To

• Dana Mulder, who wrote this lovely messaging tutorial. It was a great jumping-off point for what I really needed.
• Thredded which was probably too much for this little social app, but designed so beautifully and works so well with the rest of the Rails environment, I have to give props.

To Do

• Add languages for users
• Install has_friendship so users can friend each other
• Deploy app for staging / testing
• Users can find others whose languages match up
• Install a messaging service so users can message each other
• Style and sanitize params for login, edit user registration
• Create a nav bar
• Get Foundation Javascript working for a "real" nav bar
• Create forums so users can post publicly
• Install an admin interface so users and forum posts can be monitored for inappropriate activity
• Research security settings and make sure user data is not compromisable
• Add photos for users
• Install i18n translation for at least Swedish, hopefully other languages too (will need help - Arabic, anyone?)
• Style flash messages
• Users' language list should be links to lists of users who speak / want to speak those languages
• Production deployment to Digital Ocean
• Language and Learning lists need to populate with the values already in the database (on the edit profile form).
• Refactor messaging to use helpers like user.conversations
• Unit test helper methods.
• Fix the stupid problem with rails db:environment:set RAILS_ENV=test
• Better 404 & 500 pages
• Facebook OAuth
• Seed file
• Add continuous deployment with Travis

To Play

In addition to database setup and bundle and self-evident Rails stuff, you also need to:

• rake thredded:install:emoji locally and on your server.
• If you want to create messagesboards manually, use Thredded::Messageboard.new(name: 'Whatever', description: 'whatever')