Anecdote is a Ruby on Rails-based social media platform designed to foster collaborative memory sharing among friends. Unlike traditional social media that emphasizes following celebrities or influencers, Anecdote is all about connecting with your friends and collectively creating and sharing stories, photos, and experiences. Whether it's sharing funny anecdotes from a recent vacation, documenting life events, or simply keeping up with each other’s daily lives, Anecdote makes it easy and fun.
- Sign Up and Log In: Users can register, log in, and manage their accounts securely using the Devise gem.
- Profile Management: Users can update their profile information, including a profile picture and biography, to personalize their experience.
- Create and Edit Posts: Users can create posts to share their stories, experiences, and thoughts. Posts can be edited or deleted as needed.
- Multimedia Support: Attach images to posts to visually enrich your stories and experiences.
- Post Organization: Posts are displayed in reverse chronological order, making it easy to stay updated on the latest content.
- Friend Requests: Users can send and accept friend requests to connect with others on the platform.
- Symmetrical Friendships: Once a friend request is accepted, both users become friends, allowing them to see and interact with each other's content.
- Manage Friendships: Users can view their friends list, remove friends, and manage their connections from their profile.
- Storytelling: Users can collaborate with friends to create long, interconnected stories, where multiple users contribute to a shared narrative, enhancing the collective memory experience.
- Gallery for Shared Photos: Easily create and share galleries where friends can collectively add photos, capturing the essence of shared experiences and events.
- Standard Posts: Users can still create individual posts to share personal anecdotes, stories, or thoughts.
- User-Friendly Interface: Anecdote is designed to be responsive, providing an optimal viewing experience across a wide range of devices in the web, from mobile phones to desktop computers.
- Personalized Recommendations: Anecdote uses AI to suggest friends, groups, or content that aligns with your interests and interactions, making your experience more engaging and relevant.
- Sentiment Analysis: The platform can analyze the sentiment of posts and comments, offering insights into the emotional tone of shared content, and promoting positive interactions within the community.
- Stay Informed: Future updates will include notifications to keep users informed of new friend requests, comments, and likes on their posts.
Ruby on Rails excels in web development with the following features:
- MVC Architecture: Separates concerns into Models (data), Views (UI), and Controllers (logic), promoting clean code and easier maintenance.
- Active Record: Simplifies database integration by allowing interactions with database records as Ruby objects, enhancing data management and reducing boilerplate code.
- ERB Templates: Embeds Ruby code into HTML, enabling dynamic content generation within views.
- SCSS: Provides advanced styling capabilities, making it easy to create responsive and visually appealing designs.
- Convention Over Configuration: Reduces decision-making and setup time with sensible defaults, accelerating development.
- Ruby: Version 3.x or higher
- Rails: Version 6.x or higher
- SQLite3: Used as the database in development
(This repo is not the full directory as there are sensitive informations, if you want to have a full working repo, contact me :))
- Clone the Repository:
git clone https://github.com/JakubSchwenkbeck/Social-Media/.git - Navigate to the Root Directory:
cd Anecdote - Run the App Use
rails serverto put up a local server accessible by visiting http://localhost:3000/.