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.

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

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

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