Six Degrees

DEMO

This app will allow users to view movies and actors in a database, Wednesday, May 17, 2017

By Nicole Santamaria, James Higgins, Nick Powell, Jason Ainsworth

Description

This app will use a ActiveRecord to track movies and actors through a many-to-many relationship. Users will be able to see the relationship between two actors.

Specifications:

Behavior	Input	Output
goes to homepage	user visits homepage	and sees two forms to add two different actors names
submit two forms to see the degree	the user inputs two actors	user sees the separation between the two inputted actors
clicks on individual movie	user goes to the movie page	user sees the cast of the movie
user clicks on the individual actor link	user taken to actor page	user can see all movies the actor has been in

Setup/Installation Requirements

Access Atom Files

• Ensure connection to the Internet
• On a mac using spotlight search type in terminal
• Once in terminal enter the following commands to clone the file to your desktop and open the repository:

$ cd desktop
$ git clone https://github.com/nrsantamaria/six-degrees.git
$ cd six-degrees
$ atom .

• This will open all of the files included in the six-degree folder including Gemfile, Gemfile.lock, app.rb, README.md, views folder, spec folder, public folder, lib folder
• To make changes to the text on the page that the user will see you will need to access the files in the views folder.
• To make changes to the look of the file you will need to access the styles.css file.
• To make changes to the functions of the form you will need to access the actor.rb file or movie.rb file. Be sure to make necessary changes to your specs.

Create Database and Tables

• In the terminal enter the following commands to start postgres:
• run ruby app.rb in the terminal:
• visit localhost:4567/load-db
• close terminal window that has ruby app.rb after loading desired amount of movies into database

$ postgres

• Open another tab in the terminal enter the following commands to start the databases needed for this program:

$ rake db:create
$ rake db:migrate
$ rake db:test:prepare

Run the Program

• Navigate to the repo on your desktop and run the following in a new tab in the terminal to start the sinatra server:

$ ruby app.rb

• Open your browser and enter localhost:4567 as the URL path.

Known Bugs

If autocomplete is not working, inspect element and click error message and it will display the actors name that is causing the error Example Brad "Chip" Pope, Rodney "Bear" Jackson. Find the actor by their id, and delete the actor from your database.

Support and contact details

Please contact Nicole Santamaria at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Technologies Used

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• Jquery
• Bootstrap
• Postgres
• psql
• Ruby
• Sinatra

API

API from IMDB

License

This software is licensed under MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2017 Nicole Santamaria, James Higgins, Nick Powell, Jason Ainsworth