Reddit

Description

Build Reddit (bookmarks and voting in Rails using Forms and relationships)

Objectives

Learning Objectives

After completing this assignment, you should…

• Be able to utilize Forms in Rails
• Be able to add custom routes to your resources

Performance Objectives

After completing this assignment, you be able to effectively use

• Modeling Data
• Publishing on Heroku

Details

Deliverables

• A rails app repo with:
  • Rails 4.2.1
  • Functioning db/seed.rb
• A link to a live Heroku instance

Requirements

• Reddit is "User-generated news links. Votes promote stories to the front page."
• Each Link should have a "number of positive votes" column
• The homepage should order by the most number of votes
• Clicking on a link should increment positive vote

Normal Mode

Normal mode is a simple, naive, implementation of Redit

Hard Mode

• Clicking "DOWN" should create a negative vote
• Add a User who has_many links
• When submitting a link, allow user to select themselves in a drop down
• Check the Links for unique URLs and

Nightmare Mode

• Make the user sign in using Devise or similar
• Add Controller testing and Acceptance testing to verify a user clicking a link creates the votes you expect

Notes

• To launch on heroku, you'll need the Heroku Toolbelt and a Heroku Account

Additional Resources

• Read Active Record Associations
• Read Rails Routing from the Outside In
• Read Action Controller Overview