Let's Build: A Twitter Clone With Ruby on Rails - Part 1

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Welcome to our next Let's Build! This build introduces a well known social media giant Twitter into the mix as inspiration for the project. We will be creating a knock-off of sorts called Twittter.

This app will most notably demonstrate a user role system giving your web application and native application feel all within the browser. I'll be going a bit faster than the previous build as it was more of a foundational exercise where I explained common concepts revolving around the Ruby on Rails ecosystem. We'll make use of Rails generators to help scaffold some of the things I've already covered. If you haven't watched the first Let's Build, I invite you to do so in order to understand what we are doing.

What we are building

The app itself will feature a basic CRUD principle where we can create, read, update, and destroy Tweeets. In essence, this is the same as my previous build where we created posts for a blog. On top of the Tweeets, I introduce a new gem called Devise which makes creating an entire user role and authentication system easy. Combined with this gem we can authenticate users who want to author Tweeets. A user's Tweeets are then also tied to their account. The end result is a public facing site with a stream of tweets from different users. Users that have an account can login to create their own Tweeets to add to the public stream.

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