AceBook

Overview

This project is a simple Facebook clone. Users can signup with an optional profile picture, login, make posts (with images), like/dislike and comment on posts, search all posts for specific content, and view their own profile page. This app is deployed on Heroku.

Team members

• Fiona Apps
• Yousuf Mohamed
• Graeme Stirling
• Nicola Carroll
• Suhani Zaman
• Corinne Bösch

Technologies

• Framework: Ruby on Rails
• Database tools/ORM: ActiveRecord, ActiveStorage
• Testing: RSpec and Capybara
• Linting: Rubocop
• Deployment: Heroku
• Business tools: Miro, Trello, EasyRetro
• Other: jQuery

Initial domain model

Running the program locally

Ensure you have Node.js installed on your machine as the JavaScript runtime.

brew install node

Then, after cloning this repository run:

bundle install
bin/rails db:migrate

rspec # Run the tests to ensure it works
bin/rails server # Start the server at localhost:3000