In this project, we have to build an application whose functionalities are similar to that of Facebook.
Built via pair programming by me and Filipp Dmytriyenko
Prerequisites:
- Ruby
- Ruby on Rails
- SQL
- Heroku
- Git
To run the app
- Clone this repo
- Run
bundle install - Run
rails s - Open
localhost:3000in your browser
How we will create our social networking site? We need to create three systems:
- a system for managing users
- a system for managing posts
- a system for managing comments
Main Model: Our main model will contain these three models
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Users model: To generate the user model we will use the gem Devise.
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Posts model: user can create many posts and share them
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Comments model: users can comment posts
Relationships models
- friendship: a user has many friendships
- likes: user can like a post or many posts
- freind_requests: Users can send a friend request to other users and the user must accept the friend request to become friends
Controllers:
- Users:
- authentication with devise gem. Users must sign-in to see anything except the sign-in page
- user can sign in with facebook (done with omniauth gem)
- Posts:
- user can create posts
- user can edit and delete his and only his posts
- Likes:
- user can like and unlike posts without page refresh
- Comments
- user can comment on posts
- user can edit and delete his and only his comments
- Friend requests:
- user can send and accept and refuse friend requests without page refresh
Views:
- Users:
- show: has profile information, gravatar, and user's posts
- index - all users with a button to send a friend request
- new
- edit
- Posts:
- index - displays posts from the current user and current user's friends
- post always displays its content, the author, likes and comments
- Friend requests:
- notification page with all requests user has pending