This is my pinterest recreation.. see demo: Binterest Heroku

Here's Binterest, my pinterest clone developed as an exploration of Ruby on Rails, MVC, and web app development.

Please, create a user (no validation needed) to see full functionality.

Frameworks/Concepts/Tools Covered

• RoR Concepts (environment setup arguably the hardest part of rails, but made easier with RailsInstaller)
• MVC
• Bootstrap on rails
• Fully responsive (change browser size on desktop to see responsiveness)
• User authentication, notifications with Devise
• jQuery Integration
• JQuery Masonry integration (for the photo animations)
• Amazon S3 Integration for image hosting
• Deployment via Heroku (See app on Heroku)
• Version control with Git (See project on github)
• Gem customization & modification
• Image uploading via Paperclip
• Image uploading via URL
• Animated GIFs as "Pins"
• User access control (Ex: users can't modify other user's publicly available pins.)
• Fake user database population via Faker for Testing functionality with many users (testing env only)
• Pagination
• Public user profiles (click a linked user name)
• Endless scroll (when there's a lot of images up)

Resources

• Easy Upload via URL with Paperclip
• Populating a Databse with Faker
• RailsCasts: Endless Page
• Creating a User show page with Devise
• HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals
• Ruby Toolbox
• Devise Documentation
• Bootstrap Documentation
• jQuery Masonry
• Uploading Files to S3 in Ruby Using Paperclip