FlatChat

A realtime chat application. This repo contains our backend server and database.

Technology Used

• Rails 6.0 API server
• Websockets via ActionCable
• Postgresql database
• Auth via Bcrypt and JWT
• Automatic deployment via GitHub and Heroku

Features

• Login/Signup
• Conversation selection; currently there is only one 'main room' available.
• Send and receive messages in real time!
• View conversation participants
• Logout

Installation/Deployment

• Local installation
  • Clone/download the project repo's main branch. cd into the main project folder, then run rails db:migrate and optionally rails db:seed to populate the database with some data.
  • Finally, run rails s to start your server
  • Don't forget to grab a copy of our frontend client and follow the instructions there!
• Deployed installation
  • Check out the rails server on Heroku

A project by John Souza, Jazz Bozner, and Roger Robertson Jr.