Facemash

Facemash is a clone of some of the core features of facebook which includes; users, profiles, “friending”, posts, news feed, and “liking”.

Live version

Features

• Authentication:
  • User signup and login with username and password.
  • User can signup and login with Facebook Oauth
• Manage User resources with basic functionalities:
  • Users can send, accept, cancel and reject friend requests
  • Users can unfriend other users
  • Users can create, edit and delete posts and comment on posts.
  • Editing and deleting comments.
  • Liking and Unliking posts.
• Flash messages responding to users' interaction with the app
• Showing Like count
• Responsive web design.

Technologies

Ruby 2.6.0

Postgresql 1.1.4

Framework

Ruby on Rails 5.2.3

Bootstrap

Getting started

Clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/kvnlay/facemash
cd facemash

Check your Ruby version

ruby -v

The output should start with something like ruby 2.6.0

If not, install the right ruby version using rbenv (it could take a while):

rbenv install 2.6.0

Install dependencies

Using Bundler:

bundle install --without production

Set environment variables

Using Figaro:

Add Figaro to your Gemfile and bundle install:

This creates a commented config/application.yml file and adds it to your .gitignore. Add your own configuration to this file and you're done!

add Postgresql username and password to `config/application.yml` with the following variable names:
username: POSTGRES_USER
password: POSTGRES_PASSWORD

Initialize the database

rails db:create db:migrate db:seed

Testing

Simply run

rspec

Contributors

Musa Jabbaaru Ntege
Kingsley Omotayo