Table of Contents

• Basic Information
• Static Pages
• Routing
• Users
• Sessions
• Posts
• Comments and Replies
• Notifications
• Common Features
• Live Application
• Other Projects

Basic Information

This repository contains code of a forum where users can create posts. This is written on Ruby using the Rails framework.

Several key features include:

• Comments and replies
• Notifications and the ability to mute them
• User authentication with password hashing
• User moderation and user ranks
• Website redirections that make sense
• Input sanitation and proper formatting
• Basic searching for users, posts, and user specific posts

Several things that should be noted:

• By default, nobody can destroy a user for security reasons
• User creation has no verification (ie. emails), as that is outside the scope of this project
• There is no forget password feature because of this
• User ranks must be set by editing the entry in the database, you can use the rails console for this
• This is not production ready and is not meant to be used as is.
• The database used is the default SQLite3, however, the live version uses PostgreSQL as Heroku does not support SQLite3.

Version Information:

• Ruby: 3.0.1
• Rails: 6.1.3.2
• Other than that, I believe nothing else should be needed

How to run:

• Go into the directory
• Run rails db:setup in the terminal
• Run rails server
• If you’re getting a Webpacker::Manifest::MissingEntryError, run rails webpacker:install
• Everything should be working afterwards