Rails Capstone Project: Twitter Redesign

Based on Twitter, the redesign is a desktop web app that allows users to share opinions and follow other users

Live Link

Visit Twitter-ish

Objectives:

• Building a RESTful application
• Application of the MVC design architecture
• Using Active Record associations, queries and validations
• Implementing intuitive user experience and aesthetic interface

Features

On Twitter-ish, a user can sign-up with only their names and username. The photo and cover image are optional on sign up as defaults will be applied. Users can however, edit their profile and upload their preferred photos. The maximum allowable sizes are 2MB and 4MB for photo and cover image resectively. Users can share opinions and follow users. Subsequent iterations will provide pagination.

Prerequisites

• Internet connection

Tools / Built With

• Ruby 3.0.
• Rails 6.1.3
• Bootstrap 5
• Node.js
• Amazon AWS S3
• Yarn

Getting Started

• To get started with the app, clone this project by running git clone https://github.com/george-swift/twitter-ish.git
• Run bundle install to install the needed packages
• Run yarn install to install the dependencies
• Next, migrate the database to your environment: rails db:migrate
• Finally, run the test suite to verify that everything is working correctly: rails test
• If the test suite passes, you are ready to run the app in a local server. Execute rails s to fire up the server
• Visit http://localhost:3000/ in your browser to run the app in a local server
• You can then sign up with required details
• To terminate the server, enter Ctrl + C in your terminal

Testing

• Unit and integration tests are implemented with Rspec
• To verify these tests, run bin/rails spec
• To get a verbose format of the implemented tests, run bin/rails spec SPEC_OPTS="--format=doc"

Authors

👤   Ubong George

• LinkedIn: Ubong George
• Twitter: @__pragmaticdev
• GitHub: @george-swift

Acknowledgments

• Ruby on Rails Guide and API docs for technical information with Rails
• Icons8 for icons used in design
• Gregoire Vella for inspiration on Behance
• Unsplash creative Julian Böck for default cover image on Twitter-ish

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License

Available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.