CatBook powered by IronHack

Because cats, as social beings, also deserve a place to share their experiences.

Step by step implementation

1. rails new catbook
2. Use rspec instead of minitest - Rspec
3. Use factory_girl - FactoryGirl
4. Use Postgres as default database - Configuring a Database - Rails Guides
5. Basic cat model rails generate model cat
6. Bower and boostrap - Bower
7. Create basic scaffold for listing, editing and showing cats

• Security pitfalls are on purpose included here in order the students to find them
• Included kaminari pagination - Kaminari

8. Introduce sightly advanced association FollowerRelation - FrontMatter rails tutorial
9. Do 'heavy' queries to render followers in cats#show and cats#index
10. Generate rake task to seed followers rails g task catbook seed_follower_relations (Note: Could have been also done in the seeds file? Is is better like this?)

References

• Inspiration resources
  • Sad Cat Diary - youtube video
  • Dear Kitten - youtube video
  • Talking animals - youtube page
• Useful resources
  • Mockup images of kitties - placekitten
  • The Cat API - The Cat Api
  • HTTP Status Cats API - HTTP Status Cats API