README

It is a platform where users can come and post questions and answers as well as comment like stackoverflow.com.

Workflow:

Users ->

• Enter the system and create a account (managed by devise gem).
• Look at the existing questions and answers (without login requirement just like stackoverflow)
• If they want to see some other user profile they require first to create a account of login)
• Post Answers to Questions or ask their own Questions

Technology:

• Frontend: Bootstrap
• Backend: Rails
• Database: PostgreSQL

Schema: Updated Schema

Database schema for the app is as follows and link of lucicdchart. The schema diagram uses crows foot notation for specifying the relationship of models.

Models:

• User
• Question
• Answer
• Comment
• Badge

Installation instruction

Steps:

• Change the working directory to some directory in your system ex. /projects/
• Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/suryaajha/mini_milastic_stackoverflow.git
• cd mini_milastic_stackoverflow
• Installation instruction of ruby using ruby using rvm
  • Install ruby version 2.7.0
    rvm install 2.7.0
  • Choose the installed ruby version
    rvm use 2.7.0
  • Create a new gemset for isolating your environment rvm gemset create mini_so
  • Use the newly created gemset rvm use @mini_so
  • Install bundler for installing required dependencies of the project
    gem install bundler
  • Install required packages using bundler
    bundle install
  • If Yarn packages are out of date follow the given instructions to recover
  • May get some errors about database please satisfy the errors. May be by
    rails db:create rails db:migration
  • Run the rails server
    rails server
  • Open browser and go to http://localhost:3000/
    Hopefully done!

Requirement

• Ruby version - 2.7.0

• Gemset mini_so
  rvm gemset create mini_so

• Database creation
  rails db:create