Social Media Project

This project is was built on top of our knowledge of ActiveRecord associations and tests.

What it does

Its a social media app similar to Facebook.

As a guest user:

• You will be able to create account/log in.
• You can see only “Sign in” and “Sign out” page.

As a logged-in user:

• You will be able to see all users list.
• You will be able to see selected user page with their user name and all posts written by them (the most recent posts on the top).
• You will be able to send a friendship invitation.
• You will see a button “Invite to friendship” next to the name of user who is not your friend yet - on both users’ list and single user page.
• You will be able to see pending friendship invitations sent to you from other users.
• You will be able to accept or reject friendships invitation.
• You will be able to create new posts (text only).
• You will be able to like/dislike posts (but you can like single post only once).
• You will be able to add comments to posts.
• You will be able to see “Timeline” page with posts (with number of likes and comments) written by you and all your friends (the most recent posts on the top).
• Timeline page is the root page of the app.

Built With

• Ruby v2.6.5
• Ruby on Rails v5.2.4

Gems used:

• Devise (for user authentication)

• Gravatar image tag (for accessing gravatar images of users)

• Gems used for testing:

  • Capybara
  • Selenium webdriver
  • Chromedriver helper
  • Database cleaner
  • Rspec-rails
  • Shoulda matchers

• Rubocop

Live Demo

Live Demo Link

Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

Prerequisites

• Ruby: 2.6.5
• Rails: 5.2.3
• Postgres: >= 9.5

Setup

Install gems with:

bundle install

Setup database with:

   rails db:create
   rails db:migrate

Create users with:

   rails db:seed
   Login with email: 'example-{add a number between 1-16}@microverse.org', and password:'password'

Usage

Start server with:

    rails server

Open http://localhost:3000/ in your browser.

Run tests

    rpsec

Deployment

Live Demo Link

Authors

👤 Tirthajyoti Ghosh

• Github: @Tirthajyoti Ghosh
• Twitter: @terrific_ghosh
• Linkedin: Tirthajyoti Ghosh

👤 Javier Oriol Correas Sanchez Cuesta

• Github: @javitocor
• Twitter: @JavierCorreas4
• Linkedin: Javier Oriol Correas Sanchez Cuesta

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome! Start by:

• Forking the project.
• Cloning the project to your local machine.
• cd into the project directory.
• Run git checkout -b your-branch-name.
• Make your contributions.
• Push your branch up to your forked repository.
• Open a Pull Request with a detailed description to the development branch of the original project for a review.

Show your support

Give a ⭐️ if you like this project!

Acknowledgments

• Microverse
• Stackoverflow
• The Odin Project

📝 License

MIT License