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Storitter

###Description Simple project to get familiar with technologies used at Storific.

#####Requirements

"Imagine that you were at Twitter headquarters few years ago and it has been decided to use Ruby on Rails to develop the twitter API. User interface and admin interface are totally independent from the rails API, so no need views or assets."

Install and run it!

To run it you just need to follow the steps below.

First clone the repo into your machine, $ git clone git@github.com:esbanarango/Storitter.git, this will create a folder, Storitter, where you'll find:

|-- API 			-> Rails App.
|-- Docs.			-> References documents
|-- Storriter		-> Node.js (Express.js) App.

Now you need to start the Rails server and Node.js server.

####Rails API

$ cd API

Run $ bunlde install to install all the gems, then $ rake db:migrate to set up the database.

To try the app with fake users you can populate the database running $ bundle exec rake db:populate it will run a Rake task (lib/tasks/sample_data.rake) that will populate the database..

Now you can start the Rails server $ rails s.

By default it'll run on port 3000 (and Node.js on port 5000)

####Node.js Server

$ cd Storitter

Make sure you already have installed NPM on you machine. NPM

With Node.js you'll be able to test the API, as well as the realtime notifications on the users pages (/users)

First you need install all dependencies on your local directory (Storitter), run $ npm install. All the dependencies are specified on package.json

Run $ ./bin/devserver to start the Node.js server.

Try it

Having everything ready and running, go to http://localhost:3000/posts/new, it'll redirect you to the home page where you will have to login first, click on the Login link and you'll be send to you Facebook account to give us the permission to use you're account on the Storitter App in order to be authenticated.

It will post on your Timeline in Facebook "Me has just joined Storitter" and send a welcome email. Now you can try going to http://localhost:3000/posts/new again.

Open a new tab and go to http://localhost:5000/users there you'll see all the users on the app, you can even follow any of them.

Interaction in real time

Ok so, having some followings you can enter in his/her profile and see in real time if any of his/her followings create a new post. You can simulate it doing this:

Open two tabs on your browser, in the first tab go to http://localhost:3000/posts/new and in the second tab got to http://localhost:5000/users/:id (reaplce :id) for any your followings id's)
Create a new post
And finally look what happend in your following wall :)