https://github.com/ampaire/dailyblogger
DailyBlogger is a simple Rails chat app built with Ruby on Rails.
https://github.com/ampaire/dailyblogger
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DailyBlogger is a simple Rails chat app built with Ruby on Rails.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ampaire/dailyblogger
- Owner: ampaire
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-04-30T01:30:37.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: development
- Last Pushed: 2023-03-08T18:44:24.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-28T19:34:16.330Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: chat-application, heroku, javascript, postgresql, rails, rbenv, reddis, ruby
- Language: Ruby
- Homepage: https://dailyblogger.herokuapp.com/users/sign_in
- Size: 1.55 MB
- Stars: 4
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 7
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
DAILY BLOGGER
This is a simple chat application where users create channels and join any of the available channels after they have creating a user account. It is built using Ruby on Rails.
## FEATURES
- Users can create accounts and login
- Users can create chat channels
- Users can join any of the channels created by other users
- Users can create their own chat channels
- Users can see other users' chats as long as they are signed in
- Users can post their messages to the channels
- Users automatically get an avatar assigned to them when they sign up
- Users can sign out of the application
## FUTURE FEATURES
In future, I hope to implement the following features to this application
- A user shall be able to signup/ sign in with valid and existent email addresses
- A user will be able to delete and edit their messages
- A user will be able to geta notification for an incoming message
- A user will be able to view the number of unread messages fron the groups they are part of.
- A user will be able to invite people to join his group.
- Joining the channels will be by invitation from the admin of the group.
## [DEMO LINK](https://dailyblogger.herokuapp.com/users/sign_in)
## TECHNOLOGIES
- Git
- Ruby on Rails
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- Bootstrap 4
- PostgreSQL
- Heroku
## SETTING UP
To use this project you need to have the latest version of Ruby installed. If you do not have Ruby installed, You can follow these steps
### Installing Ruby with rbenv
You first need to install rbenv and then use it to install Ruby
Open your terminal and run the following command:
```$ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv```
We simply clone rbenv GitHub repository into the ~/.rbenv folder.
You need to have Git installed on your system. If not, simply run ``sudo apt install git`` from your command line.
Next, run the following commands to set up rbenv:
``$ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
$ echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
$ exec $SHELL``
Next, you need to download the ruby-build plugin into the plugins folder of rbenv as follows:
``$ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git "$(rbenv root)"/plugins/ruby-build``
The ruby-build plugin adds the install command to rbenv.
Note: You can also install rbenv and ruby-build using the ``sudo apt-get install rbenv `` ruby-build command.
Finally, you can install Ruby using the following command:
``$ rbenv install (Prefered ruby version)
$ rbenv global (Ruby Version)``
This is the output in the terminal:
``Downloading ruby-version.tar.bz2...
-> https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.7/ruby-version.tar.bz2
Installing ruby-version...
Installed ruby-version to /home//.rbenv/versions/version``
If your installation fails, make sure you install the libreadline-dev and zlib1g-dev dependencies:
`` $ sudo apt-get install -y libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev``
You can check out your Ruby version using the following command:
``$ ruby -v``
Next, you need to install bundler with gem:
``$ gem install bundler``
This will install bundler v2.0.2 or later.
After installing bundler, you need to run:
``$ rbenv rehash``
### Installing Ruby on Rails
After installing Ruby , let's now see how we can install Ruby on Rails.
Open a new terminal and run the following command:
``$ gem install rails -v (latest version of rails)``
Next, run the following command to make the rails executable available:
``$ rbenv rehash``
That's it! You can verify your installed Rails version by running the following command:
``$ rails -v``
##### Rails (version).
You can then clone this project
``$ git clone https://github.com/ampaire/DailyBlogger.git ``.
In the terminal, run
``$ bundle install `` to install all the dependencies that were used in creating this app.
Run ``$ rails db:migrate `` to migrate the database.
Now you are good to go! Just run ``$ rails server `` You should be able to see your project at localhost:3000 server in your favorite browser.
## CONTRIBUTING
Feel free to open an issue at the [issuespage](https://github.com/ampaire/DailyBlogger/issues).
## AUTHOR
- Github-> [@ampaire](https://github.com/ampaire)
- Twitter-> [@AmpaPhem](https://twitter.com/AmpaPhem)
- LinkedIn-> [Ampaire Phemia](https://www.linkedin.com/in/phemia)
# ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- [Iridakos](https://iridakos.com/programming/2019/04/04/creating-chat-application-rails-websockets)