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Today I finished work on the Dribble App. It is a cool way to display artwork and anything visually stunning. (i.e. Wonder Woman) Since it supports pictures and gifs, I had to again use paperclip, I mean carrierwave. Paperclip didn't work for me for the 3rd time. It works well locally but integration with S3 did not compute.
I learned some cool new things in this app. Like in the picture below, on the right I can display a random post. It was done with one simple line of code.
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While working on a bug for a few hours I ran into a solution that wasn't covered by Mackenzie Child. When you push this app to heroku, you will not have a database. There is code in post/show.html.haml that is looking to display a post that will break because there aren't any posts.
The code looks for a post that does not have the same user_id as the post that is displaying, puts it into a collection and gets a random one to display. So I just thought, well it should only show a post if there is more than 1 post.
So in line 1 I added an if statement. if Post.count > 1 display the random post else display the sentence You have the first post.
It is not a big deal, since I can populate the database and it takes just one to keep the app from breaking, but in my book its a bug that had to be fixed.
Functionality I would like to add:
| 1. Better picture formatting so each pic on index page is the same size |
| 2. Search function. |
| 3. Rich text formatting |
| 4. Social media shareability |
| 5. Make pictures 30%-50% bigger. Move random box view down to lower right corner. |
| 6. Add a large version of the picture to have as a background image for each post. |
| 7. Tie dislike button to comments, so a user has to leave a comment if disliking a post. |
Tune in next week, for the final app.
Kenyacode
