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BookGossip

BookGossip is an online platform for book readers to

  • Have Discussions on notable Books
  • Publish Reviews of Books
  • Get Scoops of their Favorite Books & Authors

Features List

  • User Roles set by User Types
  • Account Activation via Email
  • Clean, Materialistic Design
  • Intuitive & Interactivce UI
  • Calendar for Important Dates
  • Group Creation & Message Board/Forum
  • Profiles for ALL Models

Built With:

  • Telekinesis
  • ... and also Ruby on Rails!

Tech

BookGossip uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

  • Ruby On Rails 5 - Awesome Web Framework that allows you to do so much!
  • PostGreSQL - Database Management
  • GitHub - Let this be the MOTHER of your app
  • JQuery - Just Enhance your app in ways unimaginable
  • Twitter Bootstrap - A Solid Front End Design Framework

Languages

To make this project I've primarily used

  • Ruby (Ruby on Rails Framework is written with Ruby)
  • HTML5 & CSS3
  • JavaScript (JQuery Library, AJAX)
  • SQL (Database Schema Design)

Tools

  • SublimeText - Text Editor for everything
  • GoogleChrome DevTools - Life saver for Front End Development

Environment

  • Ubuntu - Working via Ubuntu, a Linux (Debian) based OS, has made tasks efficient and sensible.

Resources

  • Stack Overflow
  • Wikipedia
  • Numerous Tech Blogs (For specific tasks)
  • Ruby on Rails Official Documentation
  • JQuery Official Docs
  • Heroku Official Documentation

Visit

http://bookgossip.herokuapp.com

Todos

  • Write Tests

Free For All, Oh Yeah!

Important

If you want to check out this project for development, please follow these instructions first.

  1. Open config/environments/development.rb

  2. On Line 60, under config.action_mailer.smtp_settings Find

        user_name:  ENV["MAILER_EMAIL"],
    password:   ENV["MAILER_PASSWORD"]

  3. Update Accordingly

        user_name:  "your gmail username goes here",
    password:   "your gmail password goes here"