heroku demo

What is this repository for?

• Started from Treehouse Ruby on Rails track on creating a facebook clone.
• This is my first Ruby on Rails app and I've used it to learn more about Rails in general.

Features

• The design uses the bootstrap-sass gem
• User Authentication through the Ruby gem Devise
• Creating Friendships through the state_machine gem
• Status Updates
• Picture and Album uploads through paperclip

How do I get set up?

• Clone the repository and run bundle install
• To run locally, changed the settings in database.yml to connect a Postgresql database or change to sqlite3 in development.
• Run rake db:migrate
• Run rake tests to make sure all tests pass
• All gems needed for deployment to Heroku are included but running heroku run rake db:migrate might fail; useheroku pg:push <LOCAL DB> <HEROKU DB> as a workaround if a Postgresql database can be set up locally.

#Using the Gems

Jekyll/ Bloggy Gem

• Run bundle exec rake np post-title to create a new post in the config/jekyll/_posts directory
• Run bundle exec rake generate to generate the blog in the public/blog directory

High Voltage

• Static pages can be added in the app/views/pages/ directory

Windows Specific

• Uncomment the gem for tzinfo-data
• There's a Windows specific issue with paperclip which can be found here

Possible future improvements

• Improve the About page and navigation
• Implementing a jekyll theme for the blog
• Implement the Rack Attack gem in config/initializers/rack-attack.rb
• Implement a front-end framework like Angular, Ember or Backbone to learn how it can interact with a rails app
• Implement a test suite with rspec
• Add OAuth authentication as an alternative to creating an account
• Test other gems and plugins that could be added.