BlahBlah Aka Chitter Challenge

Makers Academy - Weekend Challenge 4

Task

This was a weekend challenge where I was tasked to build a small lightweight twitter clone in Ruby.

Aim

My main focus for this weekend project was to further confirm my knowledge gained during the week. As always, I approached this project in a test driven manner which allowed me to build my project with confidence while adding new features.

Live Site

Check out a live version of the site here!

Reflection

19/03/18 I found that I began to get a good flow of how to approach implementing new features. I would first start with my feature tests, then implement the visual side of the feature. I would then to begin to write my logic tests and then finally implement the logic required for the feature to work.

Difficulties: I hadn't come across implementing an authentication system as of yet, therefore I felt that this was probably the most difficult part of the project. I also should of that I should have the database column names (blahs) should of have been named more suitably (posts).

28/04/18 I came back to this code after completing the acebook-pinkfish group project. I felt this project gave me more of a understanding to what was happening behind the scenes when working with Ruby on Rails.

Having built this project from the ground up, The existing structure of the code allowed me to easily implement a few more features to this repo such as deleting blahs(posts).

I also gained more of an understanding towards restful routing and the use of multiple controllers for a project.

01/05/18 I managed to get this project onto AWS which was new and a great achievement for myself, as it was a tool that I never used. I encountered a few issues in terms of pooling with a postgres but this was sorted with a pooling gem.

To Do

Implement advanced features
Implement: In order to start a conversation as a maker I want to reply to a peep from another maker
Fix: User should not be able to register with blank details
Host a live version of the site
Complete CSS Styling (Spectre CSS Framework)
Implement delete blah feature
Finish README
Refactor code and tests as required
Fix database build bug

Screenshots

User Stories

As a Maker
So that I can let people know what I am doing  
I want to post a message (peep) to chitter

As a maker
So that I can see what others are saying  
I want to see all peeps in reverse chronological order

As a Maker
So that I can better appreciate the context of a peep
I want to see the time at which it was made

As a Maker
So that I can post messages on Chitter as me
I want to sign up for Chitter

HARDER

As a Maker
So that only I can post messages on Chitter as me
I want to log in to Chitter

As a Maker
So that I can avoid others posting messages on Chitter as me
I want to log out of Chitter

ADVANCED

As a Maker
So that I can stay constantly tapped in to the shouty box of Chitter
I want to receive an email if I am tagged in a Peep

Getting Started

Clone or download the repository onto your system https://github.com/Hemesh-Unka/chitter-challenge.git
Redirect into the project directory cd BlahBlah
Ensure you have Bundler installed. Once installed, in the command line type bundle to install required dependencies listed in the GemFile
Ensure you have HomeBrew package manager for macOs installed. Install postgres by typing brew install postgresql
Run rake setup to setup up the required databases to run this application locally
Type rackup to run the server
Finally in your browser navigate to localhost:9292 to view the app

Testing

Tests were designed to run using the RSpec and Capybara testing frameworks. In the home directory of the chitter-challange type rspec to run all RSpec tests.

Technologies used

Ruby
Sinatra
Sinatra-Flash
PostgreSQL
HTML
Spectre
CSS
BCrypt
Rubocop
RSpec
Capybara
Rake
Rack
Travis
Atom

Hemesh-Unka / blahblah