Kitter

A Twitter for cats.

Giving cats a safe place to chat without their owners, since 2013.

My first Ruby on Rails project, and my Project 1 for my General Assembly WDI Course. Featuring optional passwordless login, custom hashtag and username filtering methods, and tweet media support (photos and videos!). I did not use the twitter-rails gem, everything was hand-rolled.

This project was conceptualized, scoped and developed in one week.

Installation

1. git clone [email protected]:trinityXmontoya/kitter.git
2. cd kitter
3. Run bundle
4. Run touch .env from your terminal or create a .env file.
5. Add .env to your .gitignore file

(This app requires a .env file to store your environment variables. The dotenv-rails gem will load the variables from your .env file into the app when it is first loaded.) 6. You will need to declare a variable for your email configuration (the email account that will send out the passwordless login link to users).

Your .env file should look as follows:

EMAIL_USERNAME=XXXX
EMAIL_PASSWORD=XXXX

7. run rails s

The app will now be running at localhost:3000