##Introduction This is the Real Dane deal people. Danebook is a social networking web application built utilizing RESTful architecture and Ruby on Rails. The is mobile friendly and best viewed on any browser > IE7.
#DEMO (non AJAX enabled) #LIVE APP
##Getting Started
###Prerequisites Your local machine will need access to the following:
- Ruby version 2.2.1 or newer
- Rails 5.0
- PostgreSQL
The following gem are needed to run the bundle install command:
- Bundler
The remaining gems will be installed with bundler.
###Setup
Fork and clone the repo to your local machine.
Run bundle install in the CLI.
Proceed after a successful bundle install.
Run rails db:migrate db:seed in the CLI to create the PostgreSQL database and seed it with sample users.
Run rails s in the CLI, open a browser and direct it to localhost:3000.
You can either create a new user or logon with any of the following email/password combos:
# Replace # with any integer between 1 and 30 to access any of the pre-populated users
email: chuck#@norris.com
password: chuckskick
##Notes
###Setting up the comment and like tables Comments and likes have a polymorphic relationship with the Photo, Post, and Comment(self association for comment) tables. Each comment and like will belong to a user. When a user is destroyed, the associated comments and likes will be destroyed.
###Architecting the friendships A self association was used to connect a user with another user. A separate table, the friendings table, holds the connection between users and maintains uniqueness so that multiple friendships cannot be sent for the same relationship.
###Paperclip and S3 photo storage
Paperclip in conjunction with S3 is utilized to manage the photo upload. Each photo is saved in 4 different forms, thumb size, medium size, large size, and the original.
###AJAX JS erb and jQuery handle most of the AJAX updates. PostgreSQL is the single source of truth for all data. The front-end calls for updates and manages page updates using promises.