odhiambo-ed/blog-app

The Blog app will be a classic example of a blog website. You will create a fully functional website that will show the list of posts and empower readers to interact with them by adding comments and liking posts.

Blog-app

Description

The Blog app will be a classic example of a blog website. You will create a fully functional website that will show the list of posts and empower readers to interact with them by adding comments and liking posts.

Learning objectives

• Diagram a data model clearly and explain what it's doing.
• Understand how to use medium-fidelity wireframes to create a UI.
• Use controllers to handle requests and render empty views.
• Install Ruby on Rails framework.
• Use Ruby Gems as a software packages system.
• Understand Rails naming conventions.
• Use params from browser requests in a safe way.
• Write tests for controllers.
• Understand what ORM is.
• Use database migration fails to maintain database schema.

Getting Started

To get a local copy for this project and running follow these simple example steps.

Prerequisites

• You need to have git installed in your machine.
• Install a recent version of Postgres.
• Already install Rails

Setup

Setting Up PostgreSQL

• The postgres installation doesn't setup a user for you, so you'll need to follow these steps to create a user with permission to create databases

$  sudo -u postgres createuser blog-app -s

Clone this repository

$ git clone https://github.com/BenMukebo/Blog-app.git
$ cd Blog-app

Creating the hello-rails Application

• use PostgreSQL database

$   rails new hello-rails --database=postgresql  #or
$   rails new hello-rails -d postgresql

$   cd hello-rails # Move into the application directory

Install linter

$  bundle init
$  bundle install

• Run linter

$  rubocop .

• In auto-correct mode, RuboCop will try to automatically fix offenses:

$ rubocop -A
# or
$ rubocop --auto-correct-all

Create the database

$   rails db:create   # or
$   rake db:create

Starting up the Web Server

$   rails s # or
$   rails server 

Generate Controller

• We need a Controller. Since everything goes through that, let's go ahead and generate one:

$  rails generate rspec:install

• This should give us a Controller and a View

Listing Existing Routes

• You can now visit http://localhost:3000 to view your new website!

You can also execute the rails routes command in your terminal to produce the same output.

Generate rspec

• At the first you need to include those lines in your Gemfile

  gem 'rails-controller-testing'
  gem 'rspec-rails'

• Then run:

$  rails generate rspec:install

• This should generate some files that you will need to run your tests

Generate migration files

  $  rails generate migration CreateUsers
  $  rails generate migration CreatePosts
  $  rails generate migration CreateLikes
  $  rails generate migration CreateComments
  $  rails generate migration AddUserRefToComments
  $  rails generate migration AddPostRefToComments
  $  rails generate migration AddUserRefToLikes
  $  rails generate migration AddPostRefToLikes
  $  rails generate migration AddUserRefToPosts

Generate Model

  $  rails generate model User name  photo bio:text posts_counter:integer  
  $  rails generate model Post  title  text:text comments_counter:integer likes_counter:integer author:references
  $  rails generate model Like author:references post:references 
  $  rails generate model Comments text:text author:references post:references

Generate Schema

To push the Migration into the database

  $   rails db:migrate

Built With

This project is build with:

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Authors

👤 Evans Sitibekiso

• GitHub: @evans22j
• Twitter: @Evans_22J
• LinkedIn: @Evans Sitibekiso

🤝 Contributor

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!

Feel free to check the issues page.

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Acknowledgments

• Thanks to microverse for this project
• Inspiration
• etc

📝 License

This project is MIT licensed.