Building Photosynthèse Magazine with Ruby on Rails

About the project:

In this project, I built a community blog magazine specialized in plants, ecological farming, and home gardening. This is the Capstone project for the end of Ruby On Rails Module in Microverse curriculum.

This project was built following the specifications, and user cases given by Microverse.

Read the projects specifications

Main features:

• Secure authentication system with Devise.
• Super-admin and moderator panels with Rails-admin.
• Articles creation and editing by the user.
• Like and dislike an article.
• It displays articles and categories collections ordered by priority and numbers of likes.
• It adapts the feature's display and access to the user's roles.
• It displays paginated collections.
• It avoids the N+1 Queries problem in loading.
• It uses AWS-S3 service to store images.
• Optimized code with Linters, DRY method, and the use of scopes in the models.

Built with:

Table of content:

• About the project
• Built with
• Presentation/Demo
• Dependencies
• Linting tools:
• Data Models
• Getting started
• Run tests
• Automated Tests
• Deployment
• Author
• Contributing
• Acknowledgments
• License

Presentation/Demo:

• Link to the deployed version of the project: Photosynthèse-blog

• Video-presentation of the project Demo-video

• Main views screenshots:

Dependencies:

Iportant Gems and dependencies used in this web application:

Dependency	for	Development	Test	Production
Postgresql	Database	⭐️		⭐️
Devise	For user authentication	⭐️	⭐️	⭐️
Rspec	Testing framework		⭐️
Capybara	Features and Integration tests		⭐️
Shoulda Matchers	Models and association tests		⭐️
Database cleaner	Cleaning database in testing		⭐️
rails_admin	Engine for administration	⭐️		⭐️
CanCanCan	Managing user roles and abilities	⭐️		⭐️
Figaro	Managing credentials	⭐️		⭐️
aws-sdk-s3	Amazon s3 for active storage	⭐️		⭐️
will_paginate	Views pagination	⭐️		⭐️
Bullet	N+1 querries debugging	⭐️

Linting tools:

Linter	Use	Files
Rubocop	Linting Ruby errors	.rb
Stylelint	Linting styling errors	.css .scss

Data Models

Getting started (Development)

To get a local copy of the repository, please run the following commands on your terminal:

$ git clone [email protected]:CalyCherkaoui/blogging_app_ror.git
$ cd blogging_app_ror
$ git checkout development
$ bundle install --without production
$ yarn install --check-files
$ rails db:create
$ rails db:migrate
$ rails db:seed

Start server with:

$ sudo service postgresql restart
$ rails server

In your browser's adress field, type : http://localhost:3000

Run tests

$ rpsec --format documentation

Automated Tests:

Models

Integrations

Features

Helpers

Deployment:

This web-application was deployed with Heroku

Author

👤 Houda Cherkaoui

• Github: @CalyCherkaoui
• Twitter: @Houda59579688
• Linkedin: Houda-Cherkaoui

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!

Show your support

Give a ⭐️ if you like this project!

Acknowledgments

• Design based on the work of Nelson Sakwa published in Behance.net
• Hat tip to stackoverflow community.
• Hat tip to Microverse TSE for Code Review
• Hat tip to anyone whose code was used

📝 License

All source codeis available jointly under the MIT License. See MIT licence for details.