Facebook Clone

Clone of facebook.com using rails 5

Testing our knowedge of MVC by building an a rails 5 app to clone a version of facebook.com. This project will help us implement knowedge of Models, Associations, Valdiation, HTML/CSS and so on.

Collaborators

• Adriaan Beiertz - @adriaanbd
• Maya Douglas - @mcrd25

Project Description

System Requirements

Getting started

Before cloning repo you should have Postgres installed. You can get various installation instructions here

Once you have PostgreSQL You must create a user with the same name of the app (fb-clone)

1. First enter Postgres console

   psql postgres
   

2. Next create the database user with whichever password you would like

   create role fb-clone with createdb login password 'password1';
   

3. You should now see the user on your list of users. Enter \du to see the list. (Type q to come out of list)

4. You can then come out of PostgreSQL console by typing \q

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To get started with the app, clone the repo and then install the needed gems:

$ bundle install --without production

Next, migrate the database:

$ rails db:migrate

Finally, run the test suite to verify that everything is working correctly:

$ rails test

If the test suite passes, you'll be ready to run the app in a local server:

$ rails server