alexchalk/acebook-remote-april-2017

AceBook

by Makers Academy Remote April 2017

About

Our international cohort of 17 programmers from 5 countries working in 3 timezones spent a week making this clone of a popular social media website.

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Visit our Heroku site

https://ace-book.herokuapp.com/

Or run locally

View the repository here on GitHub

Clone the repo. Then:

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

To run the tests

bundle exec rspec

To view in browser

bin/rails server

Then start the server at localhost:3000

Processes

• XP (Extreme Programming)
• Agile
• Pair programming
• TDD
• Remote collaboration

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Technologies Used

• Ruby as the main back-end language
• Rails for the framework
• Travis CI
• PostgreSQL for handling databases
• GitHub for storing our work
• Trello for tracking and organising workflow
• Heroku for hosting our website
• Vanilla CSS to make it look pretty (no bootstrap here)
• Git for version managing

Images

All images are stored on Imgur