devMatch - A mobile responsive website for entrepreneurs, investors and developers looking to collaborate.
Freemium business model with user authentication, image upload, payment handling and hosted on a production server.
- Ruby 2.3.0
- Rails 5
- HTML5
- CSS/SASS
- Javascript
- Bootstrap
- Cloud9 IDE (Linux)
- User authentication using Devise gem, with limited features for users on free plan. See saasapp/app/views/users/show.html.erb
- Image upload for profile pictures using Paperclip gem. See saasapp/app/models/profile.rb
- Handling credit card details for Stripe subscription payments using Javascript. See saasapp/app/assets/javascripts/users.js
- ENV variables to store and hide public/private keys for Stripe API integration. See saasapp/config/initializers/stripe.rb
- Heroku production servers for hosting, managed in the terminal.
- This was my first Ruby on Rails course.
- It helped build my foundational understanding of the MVC pattern.
- After completing, I took what I learnt to add my own feature, the league table. Here, I ranked users by their engagement and added a query to the controller to display the position and stats of the current user, even if they weren't in the top 5.
