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Homework 2 - Name of App

CoderChat is a Ruby on Rails blog application that allows users to send messages to each other that can only be read once.

Submitted by: An Vo

Time spent: 15 hours

URL: https://rocky-earth-87978.herokuapp.com/

User Stories

The following required functionality is complete:

User can sign up by providing their email, password, and name.
User can login using an email and password.
After logging in, the user is taken to a page that has a list of incoming messages, sorted in descending chronological order (newest messages at top), a "new message" link, an "add friends" link, and a "sent messages" link.
Unread messages should be bold or something similar in the list of messages.
Clicking the "add friends" link takes the user to a page with all users listed, with a link to "add user to friends list".
Clicking on "new message" takes the user to a page where they can write a new mesasge. The recipient field should be a dropdown, where the options are names from the user's friends.
Clicking on "sent messages" takes the user to a page listing messages they have sent. Each message should display at what time it was read by the recipient, or "unread". The user cannot read the contents of the messages.
User can read a message's content only once. Once the message has been read, the user will see a page indicating the message has already been read.
User can only read messages where they are the recipient.

The following optional functionality is complete:

The following additional features are implemented:

(List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!)

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

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Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

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Thanks!

Hi @VnMa, nice work with the homework 👍

The goals of this homework are:

To know how to implement authentication from scratch in Rails with the help of the has_secure_password class method and the bcrypt gem (while understanding what they do under the hood)
To design a more complex schema for a web app and be more familiar with ActiveRecord API such as custom foreign keys for belongs_to/has_many, using has_many :through and building more advanced queries by chaining where, order, and merge
To build more complex forms in views that involve multiple models.

Quick review:

Good work with custom logout route and the combination between resources and only.
Good logic with not allow add friend/sent messages to yourself.
Good work with models' relationship definition.
Good use with helper_method.

Issues:

Can't sign up on Heroku.

Suggestions

Should validate email validity on your sign up form.
Should validate new message form.
We can define multiple helper methods in the same line, g.e. helper_method :current_user, :get_path.
Should check whether user signed in or not before allowing them add friends or send message.

Good submission. Keep your good work 💯 Let us know if you have any feedback.

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