Coterie

Live Demo

Coterie is a web application that allows users to join and host virtual meetings to connect people with shared interests. The inspiration of this app came during the time of COVID where it was difficult for people to gather in-person. Coterie provides a safe space to still meet new people and stay connected.
The word Coterie means a small group of people with shared interests or tastes.

Getting started

1. Clone down this repo onto your local machine --git clone
2. cd into Mod2_Coterie_Rails application
3. Run bundle install to install all required dependencies
4. Run rails db:migrate to set up the tables for the database
5. Run rails db:seed load data
6. Run rails s to start the server
7. Open the browser and go to 'http://localhost:3000/' to start the app!

User Features

Password Authentication

• Validate current users and keeps them logged in using sessions
• Authenticate users' passwords with BCrypt

CRUD Operations

Users (the Attendee) can:

• log into the application
• create an account
• see an error message if their account input is wrong
• register for a meeting
• view their meetings
• browse available meetings

User (the Host) can:

• log into the application
• create a meeting
• change their meetings
• cancel the meeting

Set Up

• Clone down this repo into local machine --git clone
• CD into 'Coterie' application
• Run 'bundle install' to install all required dependencies
• Run 'rails db:migrate' to set up the tables for the database
• Run 'rails db:seed' load data
• Run 'rails s' to start the server
• Open the browser and go to 'http://localhost:3000/' to start the app!

Active Record Associations

• There are 5 models that have the following associations has_many, belongs_to and has_many, through:

Domain Model

Tech Stack

• Ruby on Rails
• PostgreSQL
• Active Record
• Active Storage
• HTML/CSS

Tools

• BCrypt
• Bootstrap
• Custom CSS

Build Status

• This project was completed in 5 days for the purpose of the project presentation.

Following Features were added later

• Allowed users to upload a profile picture from outside files and delete it
• Added some validations
  • Added a new validation allowing the user to be a host but not an attendee
• Changed the banner and styling for the home page
• Styled all the buttons and the forms throughout the application
• Added font awesome gem and used icons for the forms

Future Feature

• Utilize API
• Add attribute to meeting for url

Contributors

• Ekaterina Zarudnaya
• Anna Kim
• Waverley Leung