Instagram

by Paula Muldoon (Makers Academy remote April 2017 cohort)

About

I spent one weekend creating this clone of Instagram.

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Run locally

View the repository here on GitHub

Clone the repo. Then:

bundle install
bin/rails db:create
bin/rails db:migrate

Or view on Heroku here

To run the tests

bundle exec rspec

To view in browser

bin/rails server

Then start the server at localhost:3000

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Processes

• TDD

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Technologies used

• Ruby 2.4.0 as the main back-end language
• Rails 5.1.1 for the framework
• PostgreSQL for handling databases
• Vanilla CSS and Chrome DevTools to inspect the real Instagram's styling
• Git for version managing

Images

Images currently stored in the repo owing to verification issues with Amazon Web Services and simply not enough time to move them elsewhere.