This is the sample application for Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example by Michael Hartl.

The sample app has the following modifications:

• User has 'username' attribute, which is non-editable after signing up
• User index page has a search form to search all Users by username
• Admin users can delete other Admin users
• Signin is by username and password
• Users have direct messages
  • They are private
  • They can only be sent to followers
  • There are pages to view sent/received messages
• Users can use the micropost form to
  • reply to other users by prefixing posts with @[username]
  • follow other users by typing follow [username] or f [username] into the post text box
  • unfollow a user by typing unfollow [username] into the post text box
  • send a direct message to a follower by typing _dm [username] [message text] or _d [username] [message text]
• TODO: Rspec request tests have been replaced with equivalent cucumber tests

App is deployed to Heroku.