florianmainguy / fakebook

Facebook clone

Fakebook

A social network clone built with Ruby on Rails. View it on Heroku.

Explore the app by logging in with one of the prepopulated accounts, or start from scratch with a blank guest account.

Prepopulated account logins:

email: [email protected]

password: kickboxer

email: [email protected]

password: deltaforce

Features

• Users must sign in to see anything except the sign in page.
• Users can send friend requests to other users.
• A user must accept the friend request to become friends.
• The friend request shows up in the notifications section of a user’s navbar.
• Users can create posts.
• Users can comment on posts.
• Users can like posts and comments.
• Posts are displayed in a timeline style, with all recent posts from the current user and his friends.
• Users can upload a profile picture and a cover picture.

Technical Notes

• Postgresql database seeded with Faker gem.
• User sign-in uses the Devise gem.
• Posts, comments, and likes processed through AJAX request.
• Utilizes flash notices from native Rails and AJAX.
• Image attachments with CarrierWave gem, hosted on Amazon S3.
• Responsive layout
• SASS styling with Bootstrap components.

Screenshots

Sign-in page

Timeline

Post

About page on smartphone

Search page on smartphone