Schopz

A social media experience built with Ruby on Rails.

Setup application

First you need to install ruby 3.0.3 and rails 7.0.4, then you can run all at once:

bundle install rake db:create rake db:migrate yarn install rake assets:precompile rails server

Acess app on http://127.0.0.1:3000

About

schopz was created based on a course criteria for building a social media example

Features

• Log in / Log out

  • utilized Devise so users can register or create new sessions
  • OAuth allows users to login with Facebook or Github

• Profile

  • when a new user signs up, a profile is created with a default color theme
  • users can add location, link, bio, full name, and profile image (default gravitar image)

• Posts

  • users can write posts and attach an image
  • posts can have many likes and comments

• Comments

  • can have many likes
  • users can reply to others (nested comments)
  • nested comments use turbo streams to avoid page reloads, append comments, and update the comment count.
  • stimulus used on reply forms so users can open and close prompts.

• Friendship

  • users can add other users as friends
  • when users are friends, their posts are rendered on eachother's feed.
  • uses turbo streams to avoid page reloads when requests are created, canceled, declined, or accepted

• Notifications

  • can take many forms (polymorphic)
  • notified when a reply is made to their comment
  • notified when comments are made on user's post
  • notified when post recives likes
  • notified when friendships are requested and accepted

• Mailer

  • welcome email is sent when new user is created

• Testing

  • wrote unit and system specs with RSpec/Capybara

• Styling

  • styled with Tailwind CSS
  • different layout renders if user is logged in or not
  • profile color is displayed based on users profile settings
  • notification icons vary based on notifiable type.