camstagram

                               CAMSTAGRAM
                        Final Project for CIS 196:
                             RoR Development
                             By: Cameron Cabo
                              PennKey: ccabo

Heroku: camstagram.herokuapp.com

Overview:

• My recreation of the Instagram web app with basic featurures

Features:

• User can post posts, follow users, like posts, comment on posts, etc.
  • User also has a bio and name which are displayed on their show page and users page
• A user is followed by many users
• Index page shows posts created by the user and anyone the user follows sorted by soonest created
  • Only a set number of posts show
  • Post lists a count of how many likes it has
    • Writes "likes" if 0 or greater than 1, "like" if equal to 1
  • Link to add a comment, like post, perform these functions and redirect to the post show page
  • Only shows up to three comments for a post, along with the posts caption
  • Clicking on a post's image redirects the user to the post's show page
  • If no user is signed in, there is welcome text and the user can see 10 posts, but cannot
    comment or like them
• User show page displays user's posts' images in a 3 column grid
  • Links to follow user/unfollow user depending on if the current user is logged in and
    if they follow the user or not
  • Links to view who lists of who follows the user and who the user follows
• Image storage on AWS S3 via the paperclip gem
• Password protection via BCrypt
• Validations to assume user name is unique, contains no uppercase letters, and contains no whitespace

Styling:

• Bootstrap for rails and css