Blog

Overview

This is a bit of playground. It is based around building a blog platform, but there are features missing.

How to start

Fork this repo

Steps to get the rails application running

1. Install Ruby and RubyGems if you don't already have it
2. Install Vagrant
3. Install VirtualBox
4. cd into project directory
5. vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater
6. vagrant plugin install vagrant-librarian-chef
7. vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus
8. Run vagrant up
9. Once up run vagrant ssh to connect to the VM
10. On the VM run bundle install
11. Then run rake db:migrate
12. Then run rake db:seed
13. Then run foreman start

Features to implement

1. As a blogger, I want my articles to have an 'average time to read' displayed, so that my readers get an idea how long it will take them to read.

• Calculate how long the article would take an average reader to read in seconds
  • There's no required business logic here. It is up to the implementor how this might work.
  • Save the calculation in the read_time on the article
  • Once you get the read_time as a part of creation, make sure it is always saved and updated with the model.
  • Extra: display the number on the article show view in a human readable format example: 60 becomes 1 minute

2. As a blogger, I want to be able to tag my articles, so that my users get an idea of what the article is about.

• Create tag model
  • Needs to have name, created at and updated at fields
  • name will be required
  • Will be associated to an article model
• Allow the user to set a tag when creating an article (no need to allow update)
  • The seed file has Tags to add to the database. Simply delete the development.sqlite3 database file, run rake db:migrate then rake db:seed

How to submit changes for review

1. Commit your changes to the master branch
2. Push the changes to your remote repo
3. Create a pull request