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Cloning Facebook

A few weeks ago, I completed one of the major projects in the Rails portion of the curriculum at TheOdinPoject. This project creating a clone of the popular Facebook app. Creating a true clone of Facebook would be extremely time consuming, as there are so many facets to Facebook – Marketplace, Messenger, live video, etc. My clone, which I called Phacebook, captures some of the core elements of the original, such as secure login (made possible through Devise,) requesting/confirming friends, creating posts, including images in posts, as well as liking and commenting on posts.

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Rails Helper form_with Not Working As Expected

I recently encountered a stumbling block when using form_with in a Rails application I was building. No matter what I tried, the form did not work as I expected it to – on submitting the form, nothing would happen. The button appears to press successfully, the parameters get sent to the server, but the information displayed in the current view would not change.

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How to Delete from a Join Table in Rails

While working on a project within theOdinProject’s curriculum, I found myself facing a challenge: How to create a link in my Rails app that would delete the record in the join table that establishes a relationship between two objects. In my specific project, “private-events,” I had several users, and several events, which were connected through a join table of invitations. My goal was to build a dynamic link to delete the record in the join table that connects the user with the event he was attending.

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