• Drive the creation of your app using tests - either cucumber or rspec as you prefer
• Makers sign up to chitter with their email, password, name and a user name (e.g. sam@makersacademy.com, s3cr3t, Samuel Russell Hampden Joseph, tansaku).
• The username and email are unique.
• Peeps (posts to chitter) have the name of the maker and their user handle.
• Use bcrypt to secure the passwords.
• Use data mapper and postgres to save the data.
• You don't have to be logged in to see the peeps.
• You only can peep if you are logged in.

I started off with using the User Stories to create a User model. The User model creates a users relation which stores a username, name, email and password. The User can create an account with both email/username verified.

The Peep model creates a peeps relation which stores a peep.

The landing page allows a user to see peeps from all users, starting with the most recent.

Installation:

$ git clone https://github.com/hanrattyjen/chitter_challenge
$ bundle
$ createdb chitter_development
$ rake auto_migrate
$ rspec
$ rackup

Deployed web app can be found at https://chitter-chitter-bang-bang.herokuapp.com

Screen shot from home screen:

• Ruby
• Sinatra
• HTML5
• CSS3
• Git
• Heroku
• Postgresql
• Rspec
• Capybara
• Bcrypt
• Datamapper

Now that the User and Peep have been created, there is so much potential. I will return to Chitter!

• Get the Users to interact with each other and have the ability to reply to peeps. This would involve a many-to-many relationship, so it would be interesting to see how it is done.
• For my first attempt at CSS, it's passable btu messy. So, work on the CSS.
• User could have profile picture.
• User could have the ability to upload an image.