DAILY BLOGGER

This is a simple chat application where users create channels and join any of the available channels after they have creating a user account. It is built using Ruby on Rails.

FEATURES

• Users can create accounts and login
• Users can create chat channels
• Users can join any of the channels created by other users
• Users can create their own chat channels
• Users can see other users' chats as long as they are signed in
• Users can post their messages to the channels
• Users automatically get an avatar assigned to them when they sign up
• Users can sign out of the application

FUTURE FEATURES

In future, I hope to implement the following features to this application

• A user shall be able to signup/ sign in with valid and existent email addresses
• A user will be able to delete and edit their messages
• A user will be able to geta notification for an incoming message
• A user will be able to view the number of unread messages fron the groups they are part of.
• A user will be able to invite people to join his group.
• Joining the channels will be by invitation from the admin of the group.

DEMO LINK

TECHNOLOGIES

• Git
• Ruby on Rails
• JavaScript
• HTML
• CSS
• Bootstrap 4
• PostgreSQL
• Heroku

SETTING UP

To use this project you need to have the latest version of Ruby installed. If you do not have Ruby installed, You can follow these steps

Installing Ruby with rbenv

You first need to install rbenv and then use it to install Ruby

Open your terminal and run the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv We simply clone rbenv GitHub repository into the ~/.rbenv folder.

You need to have Git installed on your system. If not, simply run sudo apt install git from your command line.

Next, run the following commands to set up rbenv:

$ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc $ echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc $ exec $SHELL

Next, you need to download the ruby-build plugin into the plugins folder of rbenv as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git "$(rbenv root)"/plugins/ruby-build The ruby-build plugin adds the install command to rbenv.

Note: You can also install rbenv and ruby-build using the sudo apt-get install rbenv ruby-build command.

Finally, you can install Ruby using the following command:

$ rbenv install (Prefered ruby version) $ rbenv global (Ruby Version) This is the output in the terminal:

Downloading ruby-version.tar.bz2... -> https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.7/ruby-version.tar.bz2 Installing ruby-version... Installed ruby-version to /home/<user_name>/.rbenv/versions/version If your installation fails, make sure you install the libreadline-dev and zlib1g-dev dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install -y libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev You can check out your Ruby version using the following command:

$ ruby -v Next, you need to install bundler with gem:

$ gem install bundler This will install bundler v2.0.2 or later.

After installing bundler, you need to run:

$ rbenv rehash

Installing Ruby on Rails

After installing Ruby , let's now see how we can install Ruby on Rails.

Open a new terminal and run the following command:

$ gem install rails -v (latest version of rails) Next, run the following command to make the rails executable available:

$ rbenv rehash That's it! You can verify your installed Rails version by running the following command:

$ rails -v

Rails (version).

You can then clone this project $ git clone https://github.com/ampaire/DailyBlogger.git .

In the terminal, run $ bundle install to install all the dependencies that were used in creating this app.

Run $ rails db:migrate to migrate the database.

Now you are good to go! Just run $ rails server You should be able to see your project at localhost:3000 server in your favorite browser.

CONTRIBUTING

Feel free to open an issue at the issuespage.

AUTHOR

• Github-> @ampaire
• Twitter-> @AmpaPhem
• LinkedIn-> Ampaire Phemia

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• Iridakos