acebook

acebook Engineering Project

acebook is now deployed to Heroku.

Group engineering project, working in teams to produce a social media platform with a back-end hosted on Rails and a front-end managed by Express and React.

Our second, front-end repository can be found here.

Read our project log here.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the Rails MVC architecture.
• Implement features using a two-day sprint cycle.
• Record our learning process in HackMD.
• Full learning objectives here.

Project outcomes

• Rails back-end successfully integrated with React front-end, with new posts dynamically rendered to the page.
• Other features built and fully-tested which do not yet exist in the front-end include:
  • User can sign-up
  • User can log-in / log-out
  • User can add comments to posts
  • User can like posts & delete their likes from posts
• Migrated our entire project front-end over to a new technology within three days.
• Travis CI checks pass with 100% code coverage.
• App deployed to Heroku.

Implementation

Clone this repo, then:

> bundle install
> bin/rails db:create
> bin/rails db:migrate

> bundle exec rspec # Run the tests to ensure it works
> bin/rails server # Start the server at localhost:3000. N.B. Front-end server must be running on port 4000 for browser access!

Contributors

• Ben Luke Smith-Gordon
• Fred H
• John Forster
• Layth Al-Qattan
• Yvonne Tang