sleepylee / ror-practice-shoutr

RoR exercise to build a Twitter-liked application, learn here: https://thoughtbot.com/upcase/intermediate-ruby-on-rails-five

README

This is a small project I learn from Thoughtbot's workshop

Dependencies:

• Ruby 2.6.3
• Rails 6.0.2.1
• Java 8
• PostgreSQL 12.2

Run the app:

• Checkout, make sure your postgresQL is running.

• $ bundle install

• $ rails db:migrate

• $ rails s

Notes, instructions from the tutorial:

• Init rails project:

  $ rails new shoutr -d postgresql -B -T

• Add gem clearance and run bundle install:

  $ bundle install

• Create db:

  rails db:create

• Init clearance:

  $ rails g clearance:install

  • Note: to see all possible rails generator run: $ rails g

• Migrate Database:

  $ rails db:migrate

• Install webpacker:

  $ rails webpacker:install

• Run server:

  $ rails s

• Generate more pages from clearance:

  $ rails g clearance:views

• Add new field to table Users:

  $ rails g migration AddUsernameToUsers username:string:index To make username in db unique -> update it in the migration file.

• Run db migration:

  $ rails db:migrate

• Because we updated the User schema, but Clearance::UsersController has a different permit mechanism, so we need to disable Clearance's routes and use our own. First we add all the routes from clearance to our routes.rb

  $ rails g clearance:routes Then we pointed out that we don't want to use controller: "clearance/users" by removing it from the routes.rb

• To add a new Shout (Tweet) model with: [body] and user

  $ rails g model Shout body user:references after you have ensure your migration file met expectations, run db:migrate

• To update a schema of the db, says we want to enforce a field NOT null, run a new migration

  $ rails g migration AddNullFalseToShout

  then go update inside the migration file it just created: ..._add_null_false_to_shout.rb, then db:migrate

  $ rails db:migrate

• Install imagemagick with brew because paperclip needs it

  $ brew install imagemagick

• Adding new table with 2 foreign keys

  $ rails g model Like user:references shout:references Update the migration file to define index and then db:migrate

• To visualize the connection between the follower and followed user, we create another table with 2 of them are foreigner keys

  $ rails g model FollowingRelationship follower:references followed_user:references Update the migration file to define the foreign key, then db:migrate

• To add a counter of the follower (following Relationship counter), start adding a new table

  $ rails g migration AddFollowingRelationshipCounterCachesToUsers followed_users_count:integer followers_count:integer Update the default value of integer counter to 0 and set non-nullable, then db:migrate

• Adding "Solr" search engine by adding gem sunspot_rails and sunspot_solr to :development, then

  $ bundle install

• Follow the instruction to init sunspot solr:

  $ rails g sunspot_rails:install

• Start solr service instance:

  $ bundle exec rails sunspot:solr:start

• Start indexing our db tables:

    $ rails c
    $ TextShout.reindex
    $ PhotoShout.reindex

• Monitor Solr dashboard at:

  localhost:8982/

• After updating the config at: ./solr/configsets/sunspot/conf/schema.xml, we will need to restart and reindex

    $ bundle exec rails sunspot:solr:stop
    $ bundle exec rails sunspot:solr:start
    $ rails c
    $ TextShout.reindex
    $ PhotoShout.reindex