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A feed is an API that a web service uses to provide users with frequently updated content. A feed aggregator is an application that acts as a central location for reviewing the content of feeds. It injests feeds and stores their content in its own datastore after transforming it into a standard format.

You and your team will build a feed aggregator service that allows users to login via Twitter, Github, Instagram and Vimeo. It will allow users to subscribe to updates from these feeds. Users can then view these updates all in one location as an aggregated feed.

Goals

• Learn how to work with OAuth
• Gain experience in consuming with 3rd party APIs
• Coordinate with a larger team
• Accept challenges by working on parts of the project outside your individual comfort zone

Guidelines

• Teams of three or four will work with a Teacher acting as a Project Manager
• Teams will rotate team leader and standup leader roles on a weekly basis
• Practice TDD
• Spend time at the beginning creating user stories and defining precise requirements

Technical Requirements

Authentication

• Allows Users to sign in and out using OmniAuth's Developer Strategy in development only. This should not be enabled for Production (a.k.a. Heroku deployment)
• Allows Users to sign-up and login with at least two social media accounts (Instagram, Twitter, Vimeo, Github)

APIs

Choose two of the APIs below to implement:

• Twitter
  • Search users
  • Subscribe to a user's Twitter updates
• Vimeo
  • Search users
  • Subscribe to a user's Vimeo updates
• Instagram
  • Search users
  • Subscribe to a user's Instagram updates

Functionality

• A user can view all subscribed feeds on one page in chronological order
• Save each social media post to the local database, duplicates should not be allowed

Testing

• 95% Test Coverage

Look & Feel

• Visually appealing and polished

Baseline

• Each team shall submit a baseline Pull Request with their Rails application created, ruby version, ruby gemset and gemfile updated with default gems
• This PR shall be merged with the baseline setup prior to any other code being pushed to the branch/fork

Final Submission

• Deployed to Heroku and link included in the Pull Request and README
• No major bugs
• Minor bugs noted as Github issues

Added Fun!

• Automatically pulls in Twitter timeline feed for the authenticated user
• Automatically pulls in Instagram timeline feed for the authenticated user
• Use any additional APIs not in your chosen two for authentication or feed aggregation
• Use cron to periodically update feeds without duplication
• Allow Users to share favorite stories back to social media services