Rails Project - Blog App

The blog app is a Rails application created by following the Rails tutorial designed for beginners who want to build a Rails application from scratch (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html). The tutorial covers the creation of the Article and Comment models, controllers and views (sans styling). This app has been customized with an article tagging feature which allows the user to add and edit tags for any article and a tag linking feature which allows the user to see a list of all articles with any particular tag.

Technology Stack

• Ruby 2.0.0p481
• Rails 4.2.6
• Skeleton (CSS boilerplate) - http://getskeleton.com/

Learn more about the developer: www.linkedin.com/in/alicepao

Articles Index Page

See all published articles.

New Article Page

Create a new article.

Add Tags to New Article

Add tags to a new article.

Show Article Page

View an article.

Show Article Tags (Customization)

View an article's tag links.

Show Comments

View an article's comments.

Add New Comment

Add a comment to an article.

Destroy Comment

Remove a comment on an article.

Edit Article Page

Edit an article's title, text or tags.

Destroy Article

Remove an article.

Articles Index by Tag (Customization)

See all articles with a specific tag.

Building this App - Resources

• Followed these instructions (https://gist.github.com/rebeccacaroline/d51a0dbfac4a220694affa043066a8d2) to install Rbenv and default Ruby.

• Loaded Rbenv automatically in terminal by appending the following to ~/.bash_profile: eval "$(rbenv init -)"

• To use Rbenv-installed Ruby:

  Open new terminal window, or

  In existing terminal window, type: source ~/.bash_profile

• Followed full Rails "Getting Started" tutorial:

  http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html

• Consulted additional websites and tutorials to build tagging feature:

  Many-to-many relationships in Rails - http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html#the-has-and-belongs-to-many-association

  Testing in Rails - http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html

  Using Rails link_to with button elements in HTML/CSS - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24847018/rails-link-to-not-working-within-a-button-element

  Creating a standalone migration - http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_migrations.html

  Building a Tagging Feature from Scratch - http://www.sitepoint.com/tagging-scratch-rails/

  Tagging - http://railscasts.com/episodes/382-tagging

• Consulted additional website to utilize Skeleton CSS boilerplate:

  Understanding the Asset Pipeline - http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html

  Skeleton CSS Boilerplate - http://getskeleton.com/

Learn More about the Developer

LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/alicepao