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IT 232 -- Project 4

Goal:

• Implement a custom login authentication system to view photos.
• Each photo is owned by an owner. Followers need permission from the owner to view that owner's photos. The relationship between owners and followers can be shown in a connections table.
• Don't worry about photo likes or comments for this project.

Relevant Examples

• CustomLogin   EmployeeRoster    Greeter    RealEstate    School1
  

Recommended Models

• These models and fields are only suggestions. Feel free to modify them.
  

  Owner (first_name:string last_name:string screen_name:string)
  Follower (first_name:string last_name:string screen_name:string)
  Connection (owner_id:string follower_id:string
  Photo (title:string file_name:string owner_id:string)
  OwnerLogin (username:string encrypted_pw:string) 
  

• If you want to allow owners to also be followers, you can implement a self-referential join. See the EmployeeRoster Example.

Additional Functionality:

1. Place the links to the index pages on the layout page application.html.erb like you did you did for Project 1.
2. Optional: Only the owner's photos and the photos which he or she has permission to view are displayed on the Photo index page.  I will post an example of how to do this if you want to do something like this for the final project.
3. On the Follower show view, show all photos of all owners which this follower is following.  Photos should be displayed in chronological order from the most recent to the oldest.
4. Put some effort into formatting and styling your views. Your project should not look like an "out of the box" scaffold project.
5. Avoid Times New Roman or similar fonts. These fonts make your site look like an early 90s website.

Grading Breakdown:

• Functionality: 40%; Layout/Styles:35%; Creativity/Originality: 15%; Submitted Correctly: 10%.