Maker's Week 4: Weekly challenge

This challenge was the fourth of my Maker's weekend challenges. This was by a noticeable margin the more complex of the challenges I had been given so far, but not so difficult to achieve. The learning objectives for this week were:

• Built a web app with data permanence, allowing rendered data to persist between page refreshes
• Allow a user to input new data in order to change what is rendered, and have these changes persist
• Using a Ruby based ORM to interface with SQL based database

Successes

• All but advanced challenge feature implemented with full test coverage
• Successfully implemented authentication and login, as well as time formatting
• Everything until Bcrypt and styling done without references/ documentation

To improve

• Styling is weak and took far too much effort, would use a front end framework next time
• More detailed planning, needed to remake a table because I couldnt work out how to add a relationship to an existing table
• User name attached to messages is done by current user, leading to incorrect display when different users log in, needs refactoring to use user data on message creation.

Chitter Challenge

STRAIGHT UP

As a Maker
So that I can let people know what I am doing  
I want to post a message (peep) to chitter

As a maker
So that I can see what others are saying  
I want to see all peeps in reverse chronological order

As a Maker
So that I can better appreciate the context of a peep
I want to see the time at which it was made

As a Maker
So that I can post messages on Chitter as me
I want to sign up for Chitter

HARDER

As a Maker
So that only I can post messages on Chitter as me
I want to log in to Chitter

As a Maker
So that I can avoid others posting messages on Chitter as me
I want to log out of Chitter

ADVANCED

As a Maker
So that I can stay constantly tapped in to the shouty box of Chitter
I want to receive an email if I am tagged in a Peep

Setup:

• Clone this repo and run bundle migrate to install any dependencies
• Run migration files 1, 4 and 5. Files 2 and 3 are redundant after an SQL issue prevented database alteration
• Use < rackup > command in terminal to launch Sinatra server, and go to localhost:9292 to interact with the app