ALPHA-BLOG README

DEMO

Lurkers can view:

• a list of all articles,
• article categories
• articles by categoy
• list of all bloggers
• blogger's profile
• individual article

Logged-in users:

• can create articles
• edit or delete their own articles

You can either create a new user or use [email protected] testpassword if using the demo

Admin users:

• creates the category tags
• can edit articles
• can delete articles
• can delete a blogger's profile, which deletes all asociated articles

The user's profile uses gravatar to link to a photo associated with their blog. If no photo is available, a default logo is shown.

To use locally:

• Clone the repository onto your local machine
• Cd into the directory
• Run bundle install to install the gems
• Run npm install
• Run rails db:create
• Run rails s to Start the server
• Open your browser and type localhost:3000.

This blog was written in Rails 6.1.0 as a first project in the Ruby on Rails Course by Mashrur Hossein, December 2020.

Development database: SQLite3 | Production db: Postgres (Heroku)

STEPS IN TUTORIAL:

• Build Back-end: Article CRUD actions
• Build Front-end:
  • Show an article -Route -Controller#action - Model/db table - View
• Show list of articles
• Add rest of REST-ful routes
• Map HTTP verbs to CRUD actions (get, post, put/patch, delete) using resources
• Use Bootstrap 4 for styling
• Add users
  • CRUD actions
  • validation
  • one-to-many association with articles
  • use gravatar for user profile picture
• Add authentication
• Add pagination
• Add sessions for each login
• Restrict
  • user ability to edit or delete articles unless they wrote them
  • user ability to create article unless logged in
  • unauthorized routes
• Add Permissions (roles) - admin
  • Allow admin to edit and delete all articles
• Add Article Category using TDD

Published to Heroku at this point, end of tutorial

TODO

* Add search functionality
* Add testing
* Add seed data