mannieg/instagram-challenge

Rebuild Instagram

Instagram Clone

A site developed in Ruby on Rails and Javascript.

Demo

https://murmuring-island-90328.herokuapp.com/mannieg

Technologies used

• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• Postgres
• RSpec
• Capybara
• Devise
• Paperclip
• Amazon Web Services
• Bootstrap
• Heroku
• Javascript
• AJAX
• Waffle (Managing the project)

Prerequisites

• Rails 4.2.7.1
• Postgres
• ImageMagick
• PhantomJS
• AWS account with S3
• Facebook developer account

Installation Instructions

For testing you will need PhantomJS installed on your OS:

brew install phantomjs

You will also need to install ImageMagick:

brew install imagemagick

Run bundle install:

bundle install

Create the database and run migrations:

rake db:create
rake db:migrate

Running rails in development mode

After running the below command site should be accessible via your browser: http://localhost:3000 as long as no custom changes have been made.

rails s

Testing the application

rspec

Profile view

Comment/Like view

Working on:

• Follows/Unfollow
• Pagination
• Layout improvements
• Search by username
• Autosuggestions on search