AceBook

On Heroku: Acebook

About Acebook

This application was developed by a team of 10 developers (see below) in weeks 8 and 9 of Makers Academy Software Development Bootcamp. As an introduction to Ruby on Rails the task was to build a light clone of Facebook. Functionality implemented includes:

• Signing up, logging in and out
  • Created with devise gem
• Newsfeed
  • Users can create posts and they will appear on the newsfeed in reverse chronological order
    • Posts can contain images and a message
  • Posts have a user's avatar and username with it
  • Infinite scrolling (implemented using REACT)
• Likes and comments
  • A user can like a post once, once liked button changes to 'unlike' and user can unlike it (and so on...)
  • Users can leave comments under posts
  • Javascript fetch requests implemented in order to stop page refresh upon liking/unliking and commenting
• User profile
  • Contains all of the user's posts (complete with likes and comments)
  • Edit profile option on current user's page
    • User can update their username, avatar, bio and email
• Navigation
  • Nav bar for user to visit the home page, their profile, and to sign in and out
  • Clicking on a user's avatar or username by their post takes you to their profile
• Testing
  • Unit testing using Rspec and Factory Bot
  • Feature testing using capybara
• Development
  • App deployed to heroku
  • Images hosted on Amazon S3

Collaborators

• Pav Rao
• Matt Firmston
• Brett Karlson
• Sibel Eren
• Karim Abu-Seer
• Else Meijerink
• James Condon
• Luke Usher
• Will Young
• Izzy Peppiatt

Team practices:

• Stand up and retro every day
• Trello board assigning tickets
• Pair and mob programming
• Code reviews

Setting up the project on your local machine:

• Clone this repository and cd into it
• Run:

bundle install

• If yarn is not installed on your machine you will need to run:

npm yarn install

• To migrate the databases:

rails db:create
rails db:migrate

• To load the application (and visit on localhost:3000):

rails s