FACEBOOK CLONE

This project is a Facebook-like social network application built with rails. It implements the basic functionality found on the popular social media app called Facebook.

Table of Contents

• About the Project
  • Built With
• Live Preview
• Data Architecture Documentation (ERD)
• Required Installations
• Installation of This App
• License
• Contact
• Acknowledgements

About The Project

This project is a Facebook-like social network application. In this project, users can sign up either through the app or with their Facebook account. Once a user becomes a member, such user can be able to create posts and comments on other posts and in which only his/her friends can see and view. A user can also be able to post images too. A user can friend or unfriend a user. The main goal is to put in practice the main concepts of Model Associations, Session Authentications with devise gem, and units & integration testing with RSpec and Capybara.

Full task description: Odin Project.

Built With

• HTML
• CSS
• Git
• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails

Live Preview

This is the link to the live preview in Heroku. Feel free to visit.
FaceBook Clone

Below is the HomePage Screenshot

How to login as a user

This enables users to log in to the app to test the application themselves. username: example-3@railstutorial.org password: password

Features

• Users can signup and send friend requests to other users.
• Posts are created by users and only a user's friend can view or see them.
• User can comment can on his/her post or other users' posts.
• Users can like posts and comments.
• Users can search for other users with the search input by their names.

Data Architecture Documentation (ERD)

The image below is a copy of the Entity Relationship Diagram generated for this project.

Required Installations

If you want a copy of this project running on your machine you have to install:

• Ruby 2.6.4
• Gem 3.0.3
• Rails 6.0.2
• Bundler 2.0.2
• Rspec

Installation Instructions

Installation of This App

Once you have installed the required packages shown on the Required Installations, proceed with the following steps

Clone the Repository,

your@pc:~$ git clone https://github.com/adaorachi/facebook_clone

Move to the downloaded folder

your@pc:~$ cd facebook_clone

install gems

your@pc:~$ bundle install --without production

migrate and seed the database

your@pc:~$ rails db:migrate

your@pc:~$ rails db:seed

Run the app in a local server:

your@pc:~$ rails server

Then, go to http://localhost:3000

Test Run

To run the unit test, follow these steps.

Open a terminal

Install the rspec gem if you have not already

your@pc:~$ gem install rspec

Run RSpec in the terminal

your@pc:~$ rspec

Future Features

Some of the features or improvements we would like to implement on this project is to make the views responsive and also add more unit test to the test suite.

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact

• Felipe Enne - felipeenne@gmail.com | Github Account https://github.com/FelipeEnne
• MaryAnn Chukwuka - annychuks07@gmail.com | Github Account https://github.com/adaorachi

Acknowledgements

• Microverse and Odin Project .