myInsta

Instagram web app with basic featurures in ruby on rails

Dependencies

This application utilizes the

• Haml gem: To write easy and more pleasant HTML documents
• simple_form gem: Powerful way to make forms
• Bootstrap-sass gem: For adding bootstrap
• Devise gem: For adding user info
• Paperclip gem: To manage pics in application After this install ImageMagick for Paperclip gem.
• masonry-rails gem: To add jquery to indent photos
• acts_as_votable gem: To add voting feature

Installation

To setup locally install the ruby rails latest versions :

clone the repo and follow the commands:

    git clone https://github.com/Paarmita/myinsta.git 
    cd myinsta
    bundle install
    rake db:migrate
    rails s

Features

• User can post posts, like posts.
• User show page displays user's posts images in a 3 column grid
• Index page shows posts created by everyone.

Additional features to be added

• Validations to assume user name is unique, contains no uppercase letters, and contains no whitespace
• Password protection via BCrypt
• User can post posts, follow users, like posts, comment on posts, etc. and also has a bio and name which are displayed on their show page and users page
• Image storage on AWS S3 via the paperclip gem

Description of Contents

The default directory structure of a generated Ruby on Rails application:

  |-- app
  |   |-- assets
  |       |-- images
  |       |-- javascripts
  |       `-- stylesheets
  |   |-- controllers
  |   |-- helpers
  |   |-- mailers
  |   |-- models
  |   `-- views
  |       `-- layouts
  |-- config
  |   |-- environments
  |   |-- initializers
  |   `-- locales
  |-- db
  |-- doc
  |-- lib
  |   `-- tasks
  |-- log
  |-- public
  |-- script
  |-- test
  |   |-- fixtures
  |   |-- functional
  |   |-- integration
  |   |-- performance
  |   `-- unit
  |-- tmp
  |   |-- cache
  |   |-- pids
  |   |-- sessions
  |   `-- sockets
  `-- vendor
      |-- assets
          `-- stylesheets
      `-- plugins

app Holds all the code that's specific to this particular application.

app/assets Contains subdirectories for images, stylesheets, and JavaScript files.

app/controllers

automated URL mapping. All controllers should descend from
ApplicationController which itself descends from ActionController::Base.

app/models

ActiveRecord::Base by default.```

app/views

 weblogs/index.html.erb for the WeblogsController#index action. All views use
 eRuby syntax by default.

app/views/layouts

common header/footer method of wrapping views. In your views, define a layout
using the <tt>layout :default</tt> and create a file named default.html.erb.
Inside default.html.erb, call <% yield %> to render the view using this
layout.

app/helpers

generated for you automatically when using generators for controllers.
Helpers can be used to wrap functionality for your views into methods.

config

 and other dependencies.

db

 sequence of Migrations for your schema.

doc

 generated using <tt>rake doc:app</tt>

lib

  doesn't belong under controllers, models, or helpers. This directory is in
  the load path.

public

  default HTML files. This should be set as the DOCUMENT_ROOT of your web
  server.

script

test

  command, template test files will be generated for you and placed in this
  directory.

vendor

 subdirectory. If the app has frozen rails, those gems also go here, under
 vendor/rails/. This directory is in the load path.