Chitter Challenge

Twitter clone that will allow users to post messages to a public stream. Visit the app here

Features

• A user can sign up with an email, username and password to create an account.

• Once logged in, users can create a post (or peep).

• Users can log out so no more posts are made.

• Anyone can view all of the posts on the 'peeps' page.

• Only users that are logged in can create a post.

Approach and Technologies used

• Code written in Ruby.

• Feature testing using Capybara, unit testing using RSpec.

• Datamapper ORM to store instances of User and Peep, the two classes as tables.

• Database cleaner wipes the tables after each test is run

• Sinatra to run and host the local server.

• BCrypt to encrypt the user's password before it is stored in the database.

• RACK switches the database depending whether the application is run in the development or test environment.

Instructions and Installation

Fork and clone this repo, then in the command prompt run the following:

$ bundle install

You will then need to create two databases, you can do this using PostgreSQL by running the following. This downloads all the necessary Gems.

$ psql

=# CREATE DATABASE chitter_test;
=# CREATE DATABASE chitter_development;

To run the application enter:

$ rackup

Then visit http://localhost:4567 (please note the last four digits of the url will depend on which port Sinatra uses. You can check this in the terminal when you run the command.)

Screenshots

Signing up.

Signing in.

Posting a peep.

Further features to implement

• Users can reply to a post made on the peeps page

• notifications when a user's peep is replied to.