Yelp

Makers Academy Week No. 8

Instructions

We worked through the challenges throughout the week in rotating pairs.

You'll use Rails to build a clone of Yelp, an app for reviewing restaurants. Yelp is a popular web application that allows users to rate and review restaurants, and find other diner's ratings and comments. For the rest of the week you will be building a clone of this site using Rails.

Objectives

• Are you having fun?
• Are you a better developer than you were yesterday?
• Can you use Rails and its conventions to build a web app?

Using my application

• Download the source code using $ git clone
• Navigate into the root of the directory using $ cd yelp
• Install all the dependencies by running the command $ bundle in the root directory
• Download PostgreSQL (if you do not already have it installed)
• Within the command line, run $ bin/rake db:create and then $ bin/rake db:migrate
• Run the app using the command $ bin/rails server
• Go to localhost:3000 in a browser to view and interact with the app

Running the tests

• Within the root of the directory, run $ rspec to run the tests and see the results in the command line

Dependencies

• Application written in Ruby 2.4.0
• Built using Ruby on Rails
• Based on a PostgreSQL database with ActiveRecord as the ORM
• Tested using RSpec and Capybara
• Uses Paperclip for image upload
• Uses OmniAuth for sign-in with Facebook

Approach

• Wasn't much independence in the approach with this challenge as part of the challenge was getting used to convention over configuration
• Was really interesting using OmniAuth with Facebook

Reflections

• One of my favourite things about rails is the way that the route configuration forces you to use RESTful routes - think that is really cool!
• Also really appreciate that the database schema is so strict - really good to have such a clear history of how the database has been built
• Makes me a bit uncomfortable that there are so many files and directories created on initialisation of a rails app - many of which you have no idea what they're doing

Ideas for extension

• Our app currently has no styling so would be nice to make it look more like a finished product
• Would also be nice to add an endorsement feature and use AJAX so that endorsements could appear instantly

Collaborators

Mike Field-May, Mitch Goldbay, Rob Holden