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Chitter Challenge

Makers Academy Week 4 weekend challenge

The task is to build a Twitter clone that will allow users to post messages to a public stream.

App is available at: http://chitter-example.herokuapp.com/

Functionality:

  • Users sign up to chitter with their email, password, name and a user name
  • The username and email are unique.
  • Peeps (posts to chitter) have the name of the user and their user handle.
  • Use bcrypt to secure the passwords.
  • Use data mapper and postgres to save the data.
  • Users don't have to be logged in to see the peeps.
  • Users can only can peep if logged in.

Technologies used:

  • Testing - RSpec, Capybara
  • Back-end - Ruby, ERB
  • Front-end - HTML, CSS
  • Other - PostgreSQL, DataMapper, Sinatra, Database Cleaner, BCrypt

To download and use...

$ git clone https://github.com/vickymg/chitter-challenge.git
$ cd chitter-challenge
$ bundle
$ ruby app/app.rb

User stories provided:

As a Maker
So that I can post messages on Chitter as me
I want to sign up for Chitter

As a Maker
So that I can post messages on Chitter as me
I want to log in to Chitter

As a Maker
So that I can avoid others posting messages on Chitter as me
I want to log out of Chitter

As a Maker
So that I can let people know what I am doing  
I want to post a message (peep) to chitter

As a maker
So that I can see what others are saying  
I want to see all peeps in reverse chronological order

As a maker
So that I can better appreciate the context of a peep
I want to see the time at which it was made

Open browser at http://localhost:4567/ to use.

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