Learn Rails 6: Accelerated Web Development with Ruby on Rails

© Adam Notodikromo 2021

A. NotodikromoLearn Rails 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6026-5_6

6. Building the Timeline

Adam Notodikromo¹ 

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Tokyo, Japan

 

Timelines are newish inventions. According to the dictionary, a timeline is “a collection of online posts or updates associated with a specific social media account.” And that is what we will build in this chapter. See Figure 6-1.

Figure 6-1

Timeline

The timeline is a fundamental part of any social media app. There, users can see anyone’s updates (an activity known as stalking), reply to any of them (commenting), or post an update themselves (posting). In addition, we will skin the timeline dark because ...