jamesokunlade / facelook

Facelook

Facelook is a clone of some of the features of the Facebook app. Users can make friends, post contents and different posts can be liked and commented on by other users.

https://www.facebook.com

Technologies

Ruby

Framework

Ruby on Rails

Bootstrap

Requirements

Ruby version 2.6.2

Rails version 5.2.3

If you don't have RVM installed you can set it up using this guide

Installation

Open your git bash and cd to the location you'd like to put your files the run the command below.

git clone https://github.com/JamesOkunlade/facelook

cd to into the project folder and install using bundle install

rails db:create

rails db:migrate

rails db:seed

To start the server: rails server

Future improvement

• Change the frontend to React.js
• Implement live chat with friends

Author

James Okunlade

Adnan Afsari

facelook's Issues

Friendship not reflected on both users

Added user does not reflect the adder as a friend:

1. Creating two users ryto and mike

2. Running ryto.friendships.create(added_id: mike.id) is successful

3. Running ryto.friends results in:
   

4. Running mike.friends, however, results in an empty array:

The reason for this is that in the user model, only one side of this friendship is included as an association:

The other side should also be included as an association.