This project consists of a very rudimentary version of a Kanban/Trello board, currently usable by a single user (which I know for the most part, is not very useful). The app allows a user to create an account, log in, create projects, add tasks to said projects, and progress the tasks through 3 states of completion: "TO DO", "In-Progress" and "Completed". The app offers a very minimal/barebones/ugly user interface (chose a descriptor based on however polite or accurate you like to be, I did not view this as a front end project.)

This is a project built to display my understanding of several concepts.

1. ActiveRecord & Sinatra.
2. MVC program architecture.
3. CRUD functionality.
4. Using multiple models.
5. Modelling user accounts.
6. User authentication.
7. Input validation.

1. clone this repository.

    git clone https://github.com/SVRourke/kanban_board.git
   

2. cd into the project directory and run "bundle install

3. At this point you can either start the program with shotgun or rackup.

4. BONUS if you'd like greater security you need to comment out the line in the application controller with the hardcoded session secret and set a random secret as an environment variable.

    app/controllers/application_controller
    # Comment this line out:
    set :session_secret, 'Development'  
    # Uncomment this line
    set :session_secret, ENV.fetch('SESSION_SECRET')
   

5. Then create an environment variable 'SESSION_SECRET' and set it to a random 64 byte hex.

    # Generate a key
    ruby -e "require 'securerandom'; puts SecureRandom.hex(64)"  
    
    # copy the output to the clipboard
    $> 6cbb8fa...(shortened for brevity)...55fb724
   
    # create the environment variable
    echo "export SESSION_SECRET=COPIED-VALUE" >> ~/.bashrc
   

Contribution is welcome, fork the repo, create a branch, go ham.
if you think your changes would be a good addition to the project, drop me a line. If you'd like to use this as a starting point for your own project? GO Ahead! I do not intend to turn this into a product or business, this was purely an educational exercise.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Samuel V. Rourke

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