#Chitter

Creating a Twitter clone as part of our Week 6 Friday Test at Makers Academy. An exercise in getting more acquainted with Sinatra, DataMapper and BCrypt. As an extension, I decided to use the Grape gem to create a small API of Cheets, which AngularJS processes asynchronously. I also use the Pusher API to make posting cheets realtime.

##Objectives

• To practise secure user-management in Sinatra.
• To learn more about DataMapper.
• To learn about the Grape and GrapeEntity gems.
• To practise front-end form-validations with AngularJS, combined with back-end validations with DataMapper
• To learn about using Pusher for realtime functionality.

##Heroku

Here is a link to Chitter on Heroku.

##Technologies

• Ruby
• Sinatra
• Cucumber and Capybara for integration tests
• RSpec for unit tests
• Grape and GrapeEntity
• Pusher
• HAML
• CoffeeScript
• AngularJS
• BCrypt
• DataMapper
• MomentJS and AngularMoment
• Bootstrap

##How to run

git clone https://github.com/jpatel531/chitter.git
cd chitter
shotgun

##How to run end-to-end tests

cucumber

##How to run unit tests

rspec

##Planned Extensions

• Replying to Cheets