Homework 2 - CoderApp

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

Submitted by: An Tran

Time spent: 14 hours

URL: https://glacial-peak-5614.herokuapp.com

User Stories

The following required functionality is complete:

• [x] User can sign up by providing their email, password, and name.
• [x] User can login using an email and password.
• [x] 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.
• [x] Unread messages should be bold or something similar in the list of messages.
• [x] Clicking the "add friends" link takes the user to a page with all users listed, with a link to "add user to friends list".
• [x] 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.
• [x] 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.
• [x] 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.
• [x] User can only read messages where they are the recipient.

The following optional functionality is complete:

• [x] User can attach an image.
• [ ] User can have multiple recipients on one message.
• [ ] User can log in with Facebook.
• [ ] Use of the kaminari gem and jquery-infinite-pages gem to implement Infinite Scroll.
• [ ] User gets an email when they receive a message, with a link to view the message.
• [ ] User gets an email when a message they have sent is read with the time at which the message was read.
• [ ] User can send a message to the email address of a non-registered user. The recipient will receive an email with a link to sign up for the service, and after creating an account, will be able to view the sent message.
• [ ] User A can "block" User B. If User A blocks User B, they will not see messages from User B. User B will not know they have been blocked.
• [ ] User can remove friends from their friends list.
• [ ] User can unblock friends from their block list.

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:

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

• I evaluated mailer services like Mandrill and Sendgrid but Mandrill does not support Vietnam, and Sendgrill takes forever to provision my account.
• Doing UI task is fun but it is also time consuming. Maybe a simple design like the coderdating app will help me spend more time to digest Rails features instead.

License

Copyright [2015] [An Tran]

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