CSC 517 :Backchannel Application
Admin Username Email Password admin admin@ncsu.edu random
Note: User can login with username or email and the password is of minimum 6 characters.
a) Students working on the project:
. Sneh Kumar Singh Unity Id: ssingh13 . Hemant Gupta Unity Id:hgupta2 . Abdul Haleem Sheikh Unity Id: asheikh
b) Test Framework Used:
. Test::Unit
c) Starting URL of Application
152.7.98.21:3000
d) Commands to run the Application
Go to any web browser and then type the url address given above
e) Other notes
User guide to the application
On the first page of the application user has option to log in to the application or register as a new user and then log in .User can also search the forum for posts even if the user is not logged in or the user is not a registered member of the forum
Once the user log in, if the user is not an admin, list of all posts are shown on the page with details like post title description, username of who created it, when it was created and how many likes the post has. Clicking on the post title takes us to another page which shows the description of the post all the comments to the post, who create the post and how many votes the comment had got.
User can create comment on posts and delete his own post and comment. If the user does not see a vote button against a post or comment, then either the user has already voted for the post or comment or the post or comment belongs to the user.
When a user tries to upate different user's posts and comments the error is shown on the posts page after the update button is clicked (not after edit button is clicked).
All functionalities and restrictions have been implemented.
Limitations
The UI of the application needs a lot of improvement. However, since no points had been allotted for Ui, we chose to implement all the functionalities and restrictions in a rigorous fashion
The search is an exact search i.e. if you give the exact username, category name and post title, then only it searches the post title based on any of three. Please keep this in mind.
References:
The internet and various other eBooks, blogs and tutorials from websites like www.Lynda.com have been referred to in order to successfully implement the project. The following list of most of the resources used is mentioned below. However the list is not exhaustive, but we have tried to mention every source that we have referred to.
. http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/building-a-forum-from-scratch-with-ruby-on-rails/ . http://railsonedge.blogspot.com/2008/02/rails-forum-tutorial-for-beginners-part.html . http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7949097/rails-3-1-post-comment-model-for-blog-how-to- submit-comments-via-ajax . http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html . http://ruby.about.com/od/rubyonrails/ss/blogpart4.htm . http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Tutorials/Ruby-In-Steel-Tutorials/archives/Rails,25/How-To- Create-A-Ruby-On-Rails-Blog,168 . http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5429250/how-to-build-a-search-functionality-to-search- multiple-models-like-github . http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11074791/rails-search-form-with-radio-buttons-to-select- search-conditons . http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10942348/error-installing-rubymine-no-sdk-specified . http://ruby.about.com/od/rubyonrails/ss/blogpart4_4.htm . http://ruby.about.com/od/rubyonrails/ss/blogpart4_3.htm . http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5354712/im-looking-for-a-rails-3-forum-application . http://www.logansbailey.com/2010/10/19/how-to-build-forums-in-rails-3/ . http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4515087/rails-associations-access-foreign-value-through- non-standard-name . http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5025135/how-to-give-foreign-key-a-name-in-ror-3 . http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Associations/ClassMethods/belongs_to . http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Associations/ClassMethods.html . http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12333974/cant-get-a-belongs-to-model-to-save-as-part-of- the-has-one-form . http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3152924/in-rails-how-can-i-retrieve-the-object-on-a- belongs-to-association-without-goi . http://www.lynda.com/Ruby-on-Rails-3-tutorials/essential-training/55960-2.html . http://ruby.about.com/od/rubyonrails/ss/railsblog1.htm . http://www.programmingforums.org/post211751.html
. The User Login and authentication was developed with the help of the tutorial on the website
http://rubysource.com/rails-userpassword-authentication-from-scratch- part-i/
. http://rails.nuvvo.com/lesson/6372-action-controller-session
. http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/a-demo-app#book_menu . http://github.com