I'm adding a .gitignore file, because the one we had went missing in the recent move to a new folder.
Created a migration to add the user_id column to the messages table so that we can associate messages to a particular user.
I think I should have added this to the commit that added the user_id column to the messages table.
Made a bunch of small changes to the message controller and the message views so that messages can be associated with a user_id.