Week 11 - Dribble App - carrierwave, acts_as_votable, fog-aws, mini_magick, devise, simple_form, haml

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.

	def show
	@comments = Comment.where(post_id: @post)
	@random_post = Post.where.not(id: @post).order("RANDOM()").first
	end

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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.

	- if Post.count > 1
	#random_post
	%h3 Random Inspiration
	.post
	.post_image
	= link_to (image_tag @random_post.image.url(:small)), post_path(@random_post)
	.post_content
	.title
	%h2= link_to @random_post.title, post_path(@random_post)
	.data.clearfix
	%p.username
	Shared by
	= @random_post.user.name
	%p.buttons
	%span
	%i.fa.fa-comments-o
	= @random_post.comments.count
	%span
	%i.fa.fa-thumbs-o-up
	= @random_post.get_likes.size
	- else
	#random_post
	%h3 You have the first post.

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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

Technologies used: carrierwave, acts_as_votable, fog-aws, mini_magick, devise, haml,   simple_form, bootstrap-sass, heroku

Github page: https://github.com/kenyacode/dribble