Awesome Rails Microblog

A much simpler twitter clone.

There are two main branches:

• master: Html + Jquery version of the Frontend with a focus on best practices and simplicity.
• react_with_cable: Webpack + Node + React version of the Frontendo with a focus on real-time and bleeding edge tech and performance.

Features

The are two basic roles:

• Logged user
• Anonymous user

The anonymous user can

• Create an account
• Sign in
• Sign out
• See a created profile
• See all the posts from another user profile page
• Search for an specific or all users

A logged user can

• Create a post
• See the created posts
• Search for another users
• See another user profile alongside his posts
• Follow another user
• See on his home page all of his posts and the posts from the users that he is following
• See how much users he follows and how many users are following him
• Receive an email notification when another user follows him
• See his own profile page and change his profile image

Basic dependencies

• Ruby 2.3.1
• Rails v5.0.0
• rspec-rails 3.5.0.beta3
• cucumber-rails 1.4.3

How to run the unit tests

bundle exec rspec

How to run the acceptance tests

bundle exec rails cucumber

How to run the server on localhost

rails s