benjaminkreen / rideology

RoR and Backbone clone of Zimride

Rideology

An App Academy final project. Not so loosely based on zimride. Implemented on Rails, Backbone and Bootsrap. Features forthcoming.

Key features:

• User Auth
• Create ride offers
• Take ride offers
  • Undo Takes
• Search for rides (case-sensitive)

Implemented tech:

• Ruby on Rails
  • DB managed with postgreSQL
  • API data constructed with jBuilder
• Backbone.js
  • Infinite Scrolling (with kaminari gem)
• jQuery.ui
  • Datepicker
  • Sortable
    • Added custom sortable cursor courtesy of http://blog.arlenabraham.com/?p=5
  • Drag and droppable
• Twitter Bootstrap
  • Modals
  • Fixed Navbar
• Heroku
  • Sendgrid

TODO:

• Allow for deleteing ride offers
• Prevent users from signing up for their own rides
• Add logic to subtract passangers from total spots
• Make search not case-sensitive
• Refactor routes to be more RESTful
• Trigger emails