Lion Message

It is a final project of COMSW4156 Spring 2021.
Github Repository
Demo Video
Heroku Deployment Link

Team Members

• Yuankai Xu yx2622
• Yu Li yl4736
• Minhe Zhang mz2864
• Yen-Lin Chen yc3936

Running Instructions

1. Install yarn & WebPacker: The tutorial we used.

2. Install Gems

   bundle install --without production

3. Database

   bundle exec rake db:migrate:reset
bundle exec rake db:seed

Product Testing Instructions

In our Heroku deployment, you can use:

username: minhezhangmz2864
password: 123456

to test student account features,

username: cs1
password: 123456

to test faculty account features.

Both accounts have some existing data.

Test Coverage

Iteration 2: 100%

User Stories

All the cucumber files are under lion-message/features. Examples:

• If the user has not logged in, he can only access to login and signup page.
  • GET /users/new: show the sign up page.
  • POST /users/create: given the username and password, create a user account.
  • GET /sessions/new show the login page.
  • POST /sessions/create given the username and password, if they are valid, set a session that indicates the user has logged in. If not, show an alert message and redirect to login page.
• Once a user has logged in, he can see all the post he has made and can create a new post.
  • GET /post/show: show all the posts created by this user.
  • GET /post/new: show create post page.
  • POST /post/create: given the post parameters, create a new post which belongs to the current user.

Unit Test

All the Rspec files are under lion-message/spec

SaaS Prototype & Features

The whole folder lion-message is the source file of our Saas prototype.

Features:

• Sign up
• Login
• Logout
• Create posts
• Edit posts
• Reply to posts
• Edit reply
• Search posts
• Filter posts by topic
• Filter posts by tag
• Add tag to post (faculty)
• Sort posts by department
• Sort post by created time

Heroku Deployment Link

Try Lion Message!!!

Reference

• Webpacker Installation.
• Authentication Guide with Ruby on Rails.
• Heroku Database
• Rails Database Command
• Nested Route in Rails
• Nested Route in Rails Official

Development Document

These information are for team members only. Feel free to ignore!

Deployment Command

1. Login to Heroku: heroku login --interactive.
2. Push code to Heroku: git push heroku master.
3. Drop db: heroku pg:reset
4. Migration: heroku run rake db:migrate.
5. Generate data from seed: heroku run rake db:seed

Iteration 2

User

• User profile

Faculty Features

• Login and logout

Posts

• Sorting & filtering
• Topic and department mapping
• Status attribute

Replies

• Model
• View (Ajax or new page)
• Controller

Test Ongoing

Iteration 3

Notification

• Updating email to students

Test Finished