This is the second project of the fifth module in the Microverse program.
Check the below contents for further details about this project.

• Description
• Instructions
• Authors
• Future
• Contributions
• Support
• Acknowledgements
• License

This repository is about a user blog with posts & likes. User authentication is required first. Every post contains comments & likes. Each user displays (name / photo / bio) & number of his posts. Each post displays (title / text) & number of its comments & likes. Pagination through posts using kaminari gem. It is built using Rails framework with Ruby. The project is configured to use PostgreSQL database. Unit tests are carried on models & controller requests using RSpec.

📌 Tech Stack:

• Programming language is Ruby
• Database used is PostgreSQL
• Framework used is Rails
• Tests done with RSpec

📌 Key Features:

• Responsive layout to all screen sizes
• Four database tables (users / posts / comments / likes)
• One to many relation between users & posts tables
• Both comments & likes are bridge tables for many to many relation between users & posts tables
• Four model files (User / Post / Comment / Like)
• Method recent_posts allows fetching the last three post for any user
• Method recent_comments allows fetching the last five comments for any post
• Private method counter auto increments the number of (posts / comments / likes) for the relevant owner table
• Several attribute validation rules for User & Post models
• Attributes (name / title / posts_counter / comments_counter / likes_counter) are required
• Attribute title length must be smaller than or equal 250 characters
• Attributes (posts_counter / comments_counter / likes_counter) must be an integer and greate than or equal zero
• Unit tests for attribute validation rules and model methods
• Implemented request tests on (index / show) methods for controllers (UsersController / PostsController)
• Used Capybara gem to carry system tests on (index / show) action methods for controllers (UsersController / PostsController)
• Built authentication with Devise gem before accessing any controller

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You can easily download or fork this repository and work on it immadiately!

📌 Prerequisites:

• You need Ruby language & PostgreSQL database installed

📌 Installation:

• To get all required gem dependencies run

bundle install

• Create all required databases & table schemas with

rails db:setup

📌 Development:

• Run live server using

rails server

• Manipulate & process models data through

rails console

📌 Tests:

• Run all unit test with

bundle exec rspec -f d

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📌 Mahammad:

• GitHub
• Twitter
• LinkedIn

📌 Zabihullah:

• GitHub

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Some additional features I may implement in the project:

• Integrate React framework in frontend
• Implement (dark / light) theme switch

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Wish to contribute to this project?
Contributions, issues, and feature requests are more than welcome!
Feel free to check the issues page too.

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I thank everyone at Microverse for guiding me through this project.

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This project is MIT licensed.

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