c-hua / Interestist

Interestist is a trend newsfeed that shows you Google's current trending keywords of the hour and their corresponding media on social networks (Instagram, Twitter) and news media (USA Today). Demo: http://interestistapp.herokuapp.com . Built with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Angular.js, Google Trends API, Instagram API, Twitter API, USA Today API, HTTParty, Javascript, jQuery, Zurb Foundation, oAuth, RSpec, and HTML/CSS.

INTERESTIST.

See the current Google Trends by the hour and get a cumulative social media & news view of each trend (Instagram, Twitter, and USA Today). Save your favorite trends to your profile.

Demo: interestistapp.herokuapp.com

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To run: Git clone this repo. Make sure PostgreSQL is installed and running locally.

Please input your keys for the Instagram API, Twitter API & USA Today API.

Please copy and paste the raw file from Mozilla Security from this URL into “cacert.pem” in the root directory: mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-release/source/security/nss/lib/ckfw/builtins/certdata.txt?raw=1 .

On Terminal, enter:

bundle install

rake db:create

rake db:migrate

rails s

Go to localhost:3000 .

Demo: interestistapp.herokuapp.com

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© GENERAL ASSEMBLY Los Angeles - May 2014. By Christie Hua & Zeke Slotsky

Built with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Zurb Foundation, HTTParty, USA Today API, Twitter API, Instagram API, Google Trends, Google OmniAuth, RSpec, and jQuery.