Coterie

Coterie is a web application that allows users to join and host virtual meetings to connect people with shared interests. The inspiration of this app came during the time of COVID-19 where it's been difficult for people to gather in-person. Coterie provides a safe space to stay connected and continue to meet new people. The definition of Coterie is a small group of people with shared interests or tastes.

Want to See More?

Interact with the live site and/or watch the video demo! You can log in with:

• username: demo & password: abc123
• username: demo1 & password: abc123

Don't forget to check out Waverley's Medium article on how she debugged for a form letting the user select a subcategory based on its category

Getting started

1. Clone down this repo onto your local machine --git clone
2. cd into 'Coterie' application
3. Run bundle install to install all required dependencies
4. Run rails db:migrate to set up the tables for the database
5. Run rails db:seed load data
6. Run rails s to start the server
7. Open the browser and go to 'http://localhost:3000/' to start the app!

User Features

Password Authentication

• Validate current users and keeps them logged in using sessions
• Authenticate users' passwords with BCrypt

CRUD Operations

Users (the Attendee) can:

• log into the application
• create an account
• see an error message if their account input is wrong
• register for a meeting
• view their meetings
• browse available meetings

User (the Host) can:

• log into the application
• create a meeting
• change their meetings
• cancel the meeting

Active Record Associations

• There are 5 models that have the following associations has_many, belongs_to and has_many, through:

Domain Model

Tech Stack

• Ruby on Rails
• PostgreSQL
• HTML/CSS
• Active Record

Tools

• Bootstrap
• BCrypt
• Custom CSS

Build Status

• This project was completed in 6 days for the purpose of the project presentation.

Future Features

• Improve design elements (look of buttons, background image, text manipulation)
• Create a logo
• Add About page
• Utilize API/CSV file for welcome page
• If a user is a host they can’t be an attendee
• Allow users to upload a profile picture
• Add attribute to meeting for url

Contributors

• Anna Kim
• Ekaterina Zarudnaya
• Waverley Leung

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank:

• Sylwia Vargas
• Eric Kim
• Annie Zheng
• Isabel K. Lee
• the Code Bender Cohort