Heroku link

Flux-capacitr is a clone of Tumblr built on Rails and Backbone. Users can:

• Create accounts
• Create sessions (log in)
• Create blogs
• Create blog posts
• View blogs and posts
• Subscribe to blogs
• View a feed of subscribed blogs
• Tag blog posts
• Search for blogs by title
• Search for posts by tag

• View Wireframes
• DB schema

I will implement user authentication in Rails based on the practices learned at App Academy. By the end of this phase, users will be able to create blogs using a simple text form in a Rails view. The most important part of this phase will be pushing the app to Heroku and ensuring that everything works before moving on to phase 2.

Details

I will add API routes to serve blog and post data as JSON, then add Backbone models and collections that fetch data from those routes. By the end of this phase, users will be able to create blogs and view both blogs and posts, all inside a single Backbone app.

Details

I plan to use third-party libraries to add functionality to the PostForm and PostShow views in this phase. First I'll need to add a Markdown editor to the PostForm, and make sure that the Markdown is properly escaped and formatted in the PostShow view. I also plan to integrate Filepicker for file upload so users can add images to blog posts.

Details

I'll start by adding a feed route that uses the current_user's subscribed_blogs association to serve a list of blog posts ordered chronologically. On the Backbone side, I'll make a FeedShow view whose posts collection fetches from the new route. Ultimately, this will be the page users see after logging in.

Details

I'll need to add search routes to both the Blogs and Posts controllers. On the Backbone side, there will be a SearchResults composite view has BlogsIndex and PostsIndex subviews. These views will use plain old blogs and posts collections, but they will fetch from the new search routes.

Details

• "Like" button and counter for posts
• Custom blog urls
• Pagination/infinite scroll
• Activity history (e.g. likes, reblogs, taggings)
• Post types (image posts, quote posts, etc)
• Reblogging
• Multiple sessions/session management
• User avatars
• Typeahead search bar