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"