A two week group project to build a facebook clone using Ruby on Rails and React
- Our application is deployed on Heroku
- Our Trello board
- A separate frontend app that connects to the backend of this Rails app can be found here
See CONTRIBUTING.md
- Clone this repo
git clone git@github.com:Sindex42/acebook-team-rocket - Change directory
cd acebook-team-rocket - Run bundle to install dependencies
bundle install - Create databases
bin/rails db:create - Migrate tables
bin/rails db:migrate
To run the tests: bundle exec rspec
- Start the server
bin/rails server - Navigate to the following page http://localhost:3000
- Or to the deployed version on Heroku
- Users can click on a link which will take them to a signup page.
- Fill in the form with a name, email address, and provide a password and password confirmation.
- All fields must be present
- Email addresses must be unique
- Passwords must be between 6 and 10 characters long
- Password confirmation must match the password
- Users will be shown error messages if any of the fields are invalid
- Users will be redirected to the welcome page if accessing any pages relating to posts and are not signed in
- Users will be redirected to the posts page if sign in is successful
- Users will see a welcome message upon signing in
- Users can see posts in reverse chronological order
- Users can see the time and date of creation of a particular post
- Users can update posts for a maximum of 10 mins after creation
| Tech | Description |
|---|---|
| Ruby | Main backend language |
| Ruby on Rails | Ruby web application framework |
| Travis CI | Continuous integration running tests and linters before merging branches |
| Code Climate | Automated code reviview for code quality and complexity |
| postgresql | Object-relational database management system |
| Trello | Tracking and organising workflow |
| SimpleCov | Code coverage analysis tool for Ruby, badge provided trough Code Climate |
| Heroku | Cloud platform hosting service |
| JWT | JSON Web Token, for Frontend authentication tokens |
| Faker | A library for generating fake data, used for stubbing AJAX requests |
| React | A JavaScript library for building our frontend app |
- To see a log of our learnings throughout this project, please refer to our project wiki