This is the final project for The Odin Project's course on Rails! It is supposed to be a Facebook like web application, with user authentication, fun associations, nested routes, etc. I will be trying to implement AWS asset storage for users, as well as user registration with the Devise gem and common social media apis. A mailer will be set up with the Sendgrid addon for Heroku upon deployment to production.

• 08/13 Currently I've got the project in a spot where it's mostly working. I still have to add a mailer, and user registration via api. As of right now, I've got Activestorage configured with Amazon S3, brought bootstrap in, and have mostly finished my model associations. Still have to create the friend model because right now I'm using only a request model to map users to other users. It will definitely DRY up the code a lot. Another thing that needs to be worked on are the Activerecord queries I've got everywhere in the controllers and views.

  yarn add bootstrap jquery popper.js

• 08/15 Configured Devise for confirmable, and configured actionmailer for gmail.

  First, in development.rb and production.rb, configure actionmailer settings.

    config.action_mailer.perform_caching = false
    config.action_mailer.default_options = {from: ENV['EMAIL_USER']}
    config.action_mailer.default_url_options = {:host => 'localhost:3000'}
    config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
    config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
    config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
      :enable_starttls_auto => true,
      :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
      :port => 587,
      :domain => "example.com",
      :authentication => :login,
      :user_name => ENV['EMAIL_USER'],
      :password => ENV['EMAIL_PASSWORD']
  }

  Add dotenv-rails to gemfile run bundle

  echo 'dotenv-rails' >> Gemfile
  bundle install

  Add environment variables to .env

  echo EMAIL_USER=user >> .env ; echo EMAIL_PASSWORD=password >> .env

  Add .env to gitignore

  echo /.env >> .gitignore

  In config/initializers/devise.rb, configure
  ```ruby
    config.mailer_sender = ENV['EMAIL_USER']
  
    # Configure the class responsible to send e-mails.
    config.mailer = 'Devise::Mailer'
  
    # Configure the parent class responsible to send e-mails.
    config.parent_mailer = 'ActionMailer::Base'
  ```
  

  Second, set environment variables in heroku

heroku run bash
heroku config:set EMAIL_USER=user
heroku config:set EMAIL_PASSWORD=password

Restart server

heroku restart

Development dependencies

Ruby 2.7.1 Imagemagick

• sudo apt install -y imagemagick Postgres
• sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib libpq-dev
• Create role (app assumes current user is same as role) sudo -u postgres createuser --interactive