sayf-t / appreciationapp

Project 2 - Appreciation App

Gratitude on the Go!

Here is the link to use the app: https://sei01-appreciationapp.herokuapp.com/

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Here are the features of the Appreciation App

Technologies used:

• Ruby
• Sinatra
• Postgresql
• Heroku
• HTML/CSS/Javascript

While signed out

• Users can sign in.
• They can view wall posts, but cannot add posts to the wall until signed in.

When signed in

• Users can view public wall posts by themselves/other users that convey gratitude to each other.
• These "posts" take the form of text and images.
• Users can comment on wall posts.

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Challenges faced, and how I tackled them:

• Timestamps and adapting them to erb/html. The postgresql docs, assistance from instructor and classes helped with translating default timestamps to something more readable (e.g. DateTime.parse(post["timestamp"]).strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"))
• Posting comments caused fresh wall posts to be created. I implemented an if-statement to differentiate when a user is posting a comment or a wall post.
• Initially all comments would get posted to all posts. I solved this by implementing an erb if-statement that checked a condition that the wall post's ID matched the comments post_ID.

Other ways I solved for general problems were:

• Getting help from wiser teachers
• Googling
• W3Schools
• Postgresql/Sinatra/Ruby documentation