The aim of this project is to provide a rough brief of expected functionality, without steering you too much in the direction of a particular solution. The end result should be a sum of all you've learnt during the bootcamp, making use of technologies you've picked up along the way.
Before interacting with the Twitter API you will need to register an application to ensure you have credentials to authenticate against the API with.
Once setup you will have a consumer key and secret which you can use to make requests (alongside a valid access token and secret) to the API.
You should deliver a deployed Sinatra application which serves as an alternative user interface to the main Twitter website. It should implement the following techniques and functionality:
- Display a users home timeline
- Display a users mentions
- Display a users favourites
- Display a users direct messages
- Allows a user to search tweets
- Allow a user to post new tweets
- Allow a user to favorite tweets
- Allow a user to retweet tweets
Use of JavaScript is not required. This is a test of your Ruby knowledge, not building single page JavaScript applications.
- Setup a Gemfile
- Use of third party gems
- Using objects to model data (such as a
Tweet) - Format dates in a human readable form
- Use of view partials
- Implement view helpers
- Use of Foreman to deploy the application
- Deploy the application to Heroku
To show off, here's some extra features which would demonstrate some more advanced Ruby topics (in priority order):
- Add "Sign in with Twitter" flow
- Highlight usernames and hashtags in tweets
- Add a view user profile page to link highlighted usernames to
- Auto-link external links
- Use SCSS for stylesheets
- Add geo-location information to posted tweets
- Add image uploads to posted tweets
- Add inline image previews