patel-atis/stocks

Free competitive stock valuation platform

Welcome to Stocks!

This is a stock trading social media application. Users can follow one another and have a portfolio of assets.

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Requirements

Rails 5.1.5,

Ruby 2.4.1,

PostgreSQL 10.1

Get up and Running

Fork and then clone this repository from your terminal like this:

git clone https://github.com/your-name/Stocks.git

Then run the following commands to install dependencies and create local database

bundle install

and

rake db:migrate

hopefully now you can run:

rails s

and have a running version of this application running locally.

Resources:

Users

Represents users who create an account on this site

Posts

Represents microposts by users, must be about a stock that is tagged

Stocks

Represents each tradeable assets

Ledgers

Represents who is 'holding' each asset and when they added/dropped it

Relationships

creates user Relationships through following and followed

Static pages

"home" : welcome page when not logged in

"alternatives" : Supposed to explain equity investment alternatives

"issues": Bug reporting page

External Sourcing

Stocks is currently seeded with the 100 most active stocks (name and ticker) according to WSJ.

Stocks/index created with 'StockList' & "StockRow" React components

Pulling stock data from IEX api