"Stay in touch" Social Media Website

This social media app allows users to create posts, friend other users and then like and/or comment their posts.

Only signed-in users can have access to the apps features. When Logged-in, a user is able to see a list of all users / to see “Timeline” page with posts (with number of likes and comments) written by him and all his friends (the most recent posts on the top) / to see a selected user page with their user name and all posts written by them (the most recent posts on the top) / to create new posts (text only) / to like/dislike posts (but can like single post only once) / to add comments to posts / to send friendship invitations / to accept or reject friendships invitation / to see pending friendship invitations sent to him from other users.

Live Preview

https://cobian-social-media.herokuapp.com/

Getting Started

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

Prerequisites

• Ruby 2.7.0
• Rails 5.2.4
• Postgres: >=9.5
• SQLite3
• Node.js
• Yarn

Setup and Install

• Open your terminal - Windows: Win + R, then type cmd | Mac: Command + space, then type Terminal
• Navigate to a directory of your choosing using the cd command
• Run this command in your OS terminal: git clone git@github.com:kiranitor123/private-events.git to get a copy of the project
• Navigate to the project's directory using the cd command
• Migrate the database to your environment by running rails db:migrate
• Run rails webpacker:install to configure Webpacker for your environment. Otherwise, an error like Webpacker::Manifest::MissingEntryError will appear if you attempt to run the server
• Install dependencies by running bundle install
• Execute rails server to fire up the server
• Visit http://localhost:3000/ in your browser to get into the app
• Interact with the app using the links in the nav bar. To access private pages, sign up by clicking the Sign Up link
• Interact with the app
• To close the server, enter Ctrl + C in your terminal

API Endpoints

• To list all posts:

Input this link in request url: http://localhost:3000/api/posts

Status: 200 OK should be displayed and all posts data should be showing up in the body.

• To list comments for given post:

Input this link in request url: http://localhost:3000/api/posts/:post_id/comments, where :post_id is the id for the post you are selecting.

Status: 200 OK should be displayed and all the comments data should be showing up in the body.

• To create comments:

Set your HTTP request to POST. Post requests are different from Get request as there is data manipulation with the user adding data to the endpoint.

You must first create a user to proceed. To do so, input this link in request url: http://localhost:3000/api/v1/users. Input your user information to include the keys "name", "email", "password", and "password_confirmation" in the body of the request. Ensure that the code has been copied correctly with paired curly braces and brackets. Send the request as JSON.

A token will be provided in the output. Copy the token and paste it into the box displayed by the "Bearer Token" option of the "Authorization" section. Input http://localhost:3000/api/v1/posts/:post_id/comments into the HTTP request, which is set to POST. Send the comment as JSON.

And finally you can create a new comment. The HTTP request should remain as http://localhost:3000/api/v1/posts/:post_id/comments, set to Post and the comment in JSON format. Input the comment with the "content" key and ensure that the code has been inputted correctly with paired curly braces and brackets.

Status: 201 Created should be displayed and posted data should be showing up in the body.

Authors

👤 Rolando Alvarez Faye

• GitHub: @Rolando
• Twitter: @rolando
• LinkedIn: Rolando

👤 German Cobian

• GitHub: @German-Cobian
• Twitter: @GermanCobian1
• LinkedIn: @german-cobian

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!

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Acknowledgments

Guidelines for this project supplied by Microverse

📝 License

This project is MIT licensed.