Monsters

Link aggregator site based loosely on Hacker News and hubski.

https://blooming-mesa-35436.herokuapp.com/

Login

• username: testuser
• password: foobar

Features

• CRUD operations on posts and comments
• posts can be ranked by score or time
• comments are ranked by score
• posts are tagged with multiple tags and can be filtered by tag
• users can follow and unfollow other users
• users can share posts and comments with followers
• user feed consisting of posts that have been shared by a user's followees
• users are assigned badges after receiving shares and can badge posts and comments
• user statistics on user profile

About

My goal with this project was to learn more about Active Record associations and experiment with some rails design patterns. It uses:

• RSpec, Capybara, and Factory Girl for testing
• user authentication with devise
• user authorization with pundit
• user roles with rolify
• ancestry for nested comments
• goldiloader for automatic eager loading
• pagination with will_paginate
• presenter design pattern for views
• Hacker News formula for post and comment ranking
• Faker data for database seeding
• Select2 jQuery select box for autocompleting tags via AJAX
• jQuery modals for displaying views with AJAX

Setup

To get started run:

• docker-compose up

In another terminal run:

• docker-compose run web bundle exec rake db:create
• docker-compose run web bundle exec rake db:migrate

Navigate to http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

To seed the database with some users, relationships, posts and comments, run:

• docker-compose run web bundle exec rake db:seed

To explore the app without having to sign up and email confirm, feel free to use the login:

• username: testuser
• password: foobar