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Luqman Shah
188 PointsSocial Networking Project - adding a chat/messaging feature and search engine
the social networking project is really cool in ruby on rails, but im curious to say, how would you have a search engine and chat/messaging feature. Treehouse did a wonderful job of showing you everything you would need for a social networking site, but, they just forgot to add a search engine and a messaging feature, how else would my viewers be able to find each other in the website(an easy way), and how else would they be able to talk to each other privately rather than having others view their conversations. Am i the only one curious about this?!
2 Answers
Carl Reyes
Courses Plus Student 7,225 PointsI don't think that the idea as for Team Treehouse to build a social network for you. I think the idea was that over the course of building the social network you learned the tools you need to create those kinds of additions yourself.
Matt Campbell
9,767 PointsThe projects are not there to walk you through how to make a social network but a basic social network style site is a good method to teaching a lot of tools that Ruby is useful for.
Even when you have finished, there'll be much much more work after to turn the basic foundations of the site into a fully fledged networking site.
Luqman Shah
188 Pointsi see, thanks
Luqman Shah
188 PointsLuqman Shah
188 Pointsso people wont be able to sign up and stuff??
Justin Thorson
1,595 PointsJustin Thorson
1,595 PointsIf you continue working through the projects they will help you create a sign up and login page.
Luqman Shah
188 PointsLuqman Shah
188 Pointsoh ok i thought i saw it, thanks!
Luqman Shah
188 PointsLuqman Shah
188 Points@Carl Reyes even so, they should still teach u how to make a search bar, if they can put it on their own website then they can put it on a social networking website. But idk, maybe im being nitpicky