Find Me Friends

The app for meeting new people and making lifelong friends - based on common interests.

Have you ever wanted to try felting but can't convince your friends to craft with you? Or do you not have any friends? Find Me Friends is the app for you! Sign up today to start connecting with friends in your neighbourhood to felt with you!

Why use Find Me Friends?

We provide a platform for you to connect with people in your community who enjoy doing the same activties or are interested in trying new things! Consider us as the ice breaker: the mutual friend to connect you to your new best friend. Unlike other apps out there, here you can meet someone awesome on an inviting and more personal level!

How it Works

Select your interests when you sign up, see a selection of suggested friends who have matching interests, then chat with them in our real-time integrated chatroom to find out if/when you want to meet up! It's that simple! We find your bestie, you do the restie.

Tech Stack

Based on the Shakacode React on Rails boilerplate

• ReactJS
• Rails 5.0 (with Action Cable for WebSockets)
• PostgreSQL
• SASS (100% written from scratch)
• Testing (RSpec)
• Deployed on Heroku

This tech stack was chosen as it touches on each skill learned at Lighthouse Labs - plus more!

Styleguide

• ES6
• Rails
  • No brackets
• Class Names
  • Preference for longer names
  • Language specific styles; camelCase, snake_case, etc
• Thorough commenting
• Git/Github
  • Git/Github Pull Requests
  • Future tense commenting
  • Detailed comments
  • Feature specific naming for branches
    • Feature/branch-name-obj
    • Testing/branch-name-object
• Consistency
• NO CODING ON MASTER
  • Must face shame if so.
• Trello & Slack for communication

Getting Started

After downloading the project, follow these steps to set it up:

nvm install node                # download and install latest stable Node
nvm alias default node          # make it default version
nvm list                        # check

brew install yarn               # you can use other installer if desired

brew install imagemagick        # required for image uploader

rvm install 2.3.1               # download and install latest stable Ruby (update to exact version)
rvm use 2.3.1 --default         # use it and make it default
rvm list                        # check

gem install rails               # download and install latest stable Rails
gem install foreman             # download and install Foreman
bundle && yarn

Reseting DB on Heroku

$ heroku pg:reset DATABASE
$ heroku run rake db:migrate
$ heroku run rake db:seed
$ heroku restart

To Run the Server

foreman start -f Procfile.dev

This is based off a react_on_rails gem tutorial. Make sure you have all the dependencies installed.

To get the app running: foreman start -f Procfile.dev then visit: http://localhost:3000/

Postgres Table Initializer

To start postgres: brew services start postgresql

Then to start psql: psql -d postgres

To make a new role and password:

postgres=# CREATE ROLE friend WITH LOGIN password 'lighthouse';
CREATE ROLE
postgres=# CREATE DATABASE find_me_friends OWNER friend;
CREATE DATABASE
postgres=# ALTER ROLE friend SUPERUSER;
ALTER ROLE

\q to quit psql

Then run the migrations: bin/rails db:migrate

If at any time you want to stop postgres: brew services stop postgresql

Once you have the database, you can get to the table using: psql find_me_friends

To run the migration and reseed run: bin/rake db:reset. Note: before we had to first drop the table, then migrate and it migrates and seeds - as shown in the following steps:

1. Make the migrations: bin/rails g migration <migration name>
2. Drop the table: bin/rails db:drop
3. Create the database again: psql -d postgres then create database find_me_friends owner friend; (same as above)
4. Migrate the tables: bin/rails db:migrate
5. Seed the database: bin/rails db:seed

Resources

Shakacode React on Rails boilerplate

Real-Time Rails: Implementing WebSockets in Rails 5 with Action Cable

Please contact any of us if you have any questions or comments. There is lots of room for improvements!