trumpitter

A Trump Tweet Bot that uses Markov Chains to create fake Trump tweets.

to-do

• read in trump's new tweets
• allow users to vote on the bot's creations
• add highest upvoted bot generated tweets to the markov model
• add a statistics page for most liked/favorited/retweeted

local setup

In order to set up trumpitter on your local machine, you will need ruby, and postgresql to be installed on your local machine.

windows

1. First install ruby using the ruby installer - https://rubyinstaller.org/
2. Next install the rails gem using gem install rails in your ruby terminal
3. Then install postgresql from https://www.postgresql.org/download/
4. You will need a tool to setup your local postgres servers so install pgadmin https://www.pgadmin.org/download/pgadmin-4-windows/
5. Launch pgAdmin and set up your username and password. Make sure you pass this in to ruby via the database.yml file so that you are able to use your local server.
6. Follow the steps in the all section.

macOS

1. First install ruby using homebrew with brew install ruby
2. Next install postgresql with brew install postgres
3. Install the rails gem with gem install rails
4. Launch the postgres server with brew services start postgres
5. Follow the steps in the all section.

All

1. Install the required gems with bundle install
2. Create the development database with rake db:create and then rake db:schema:load
3. Create the config/secrets.yml file
4. Run rake secret to generate a new secret and then place it in your secrets.yml file as follows:

   development:
       secret_key_base: [YOUR GENERATED SECRET HERE]

5. Finally you can launch the local server with rails server (or ruby bin/rails server on windows) and navigate to http://localhost:3000 to view the application.

contributors

Ishan Khatri - ishan@khatri.io

Jasmine Lee - leejas2017@gmail.com

Will Morgus - wmorgus@seas.upenn.edu

Nigel Paine - nigelspaine@gmail.com