Just-Ask

Just-Ask is a Stack Overflow clone that was made for educational purpose. Written in Ruby on Rails 5.

Installation

• Install and run PostgreSQL
• Install and run MySQL for Sphinx
• Install Sphinx for full text search
• Install and run Redis for ActionCable
• git clone [email protected]:evmorov/just-ask.git
• cd just-ask
• bundle install to install dependencies
• bundle exec rspec to run tests
• rails ts:rebuild to rebuild Sphinx
• rails server to run the the server

User stories

• Guest can sign up
• User can sign in and sign out
• User can sign in with Facebook or Twitter
• User can ask a question
• User can post an answer to a question
• User can comment a question and an answer
• User can edit or delete his question or answer
• User can vote for a question or an answer
• User can add files when creating an answer or asking a question
• User can delete his files
• Author of a question can mark any answer as the best answer
• User can subscribe to a question for new answers
• Users receive a daily digest with questions that were created in last 24 hours
• User can search a question, answer, comment or everywhere

Some of technologies used

Gems

• cancancan for authorization
• capistrano for deploying the code
• carrierwave and cacoon for adding files
• devise for authentification
• doorkeeper for OAuth2 providers
• omniauth for authentification with social networks
• responders for drying up controllers
• sidekiq for background processing
• skim for client-side templates
• slim as a template language
• thinking-spinx for connecting ActiveRecord with Sphinx

Rails built-in features

• Action Cable for real-time features
• Nested Forms and Polymorphic Associations
• REST API

Testing

The app has model, controller and acceptance (feature) specs.

• RSpec
• Capybara