wockenfuss/hn_clone

Hacker News Clone

Hacker News Clone

Hacker News Clone is a Rails application built by Brent Coughenour and Julie Mao during Dev Bootcamp as a practice problem to learn Ruby on Rails. The goal was initial familiarization with Rails architecture, so the project was built primarily without TDD.

Features

• Link submissions
• Users are allowed to submit links.
• Duplicate link submissions are not allowed.
• Paginated link submissions.
• Link submission display is similar to Hacker News.
• Basic user accounts
• Basic user registration and authentication.
• Threaded comments
• Comment submissions are allowed for each link.
• Comments are threaded one level deep.
• Edit privileges
• A user has the ability to edit their own submissions.
• A user has the ability to edit their own comments up to 15 minutes from submission.
• Links and comments are sorted by popularity
• Links and comments can be upvoted.
• Links and comments are displayed by popularity based on Hacker News' algorithm.