Catbook is a social networking site for cats to connect with other cats, all under their owners' watchful eyes.

Owners create accounts by signing up, and "log in" by typing their name (with no typos) into the search bar. They can create accounts for each of their cats, edit their cats' information, and find other owners in their city. Most importantly, a cat can create status updates to share with the world.

Catbook was developed in November 2015 by Ricky over Thanksgiving break while they were in Ada Developers Academy.

Catbook was developed using Rails 4.2.4.

To install Catbook:

1. Clone the repo on your local computer, using this SSH link: [email protected]:hougland/catface.git
2. Run bundle install to download the gems.
3. Run rake db:migrate and rake db:seed for seed data.
4. Though there are currently no tests, once added, they will run via the rspec command.

...and you're good to go!

Ricky is currently accepting pull requests for improving Catbook's functionality and aesthetics. If you have experience working with Rails, please consider contributing. And if you're a member of Ada C[3], thank you!

Features to be developed:

• Format cats' homepage

• Add nicknames for cats

• From the owner's homepage, display cats' status updates by most recent at the top

• Ability for cats to "dislike" each other's status updates

• Ability for cats to become friends with each other

• Upload photos for cats and owners

• Give cats a "feed" of their friends' and owner's status updates