Bloccit is a Reddit replica that allows users to sign up, create posts, comment on posts, vote on posts, favorite a post and receive and email update on their favirite potst.
- Sign up for a free account by providing a user name, password and email
- Sign in and out of Bloccit
- View topics and posts
- Comment on posts
- Create new posts and edit posts they own
- Vote up or down posts
- Favorite a post and receive email with updates on that post
- Displays posts and comments
- Add an avatar to their profile
- admin or standard user
- admins can delete and create any topic or post
- Ruby
- Rails
- Bootstrap
- SQLite
- PostgreSQL
- BCrypt - securing passwords
- SendGrid - email confirmation
- FactoryGirl - testing
- Figaro
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Clone the repository
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Run
bundle install
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Create and migrate the database
rake db:create rake db:migrate
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Start server
rails s
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Run app in your favorite web browser type in the address list
127.0.0.1:3000