pmbrent / Ready

Inspired by Goodreads, built using Flux/React, Rails, and PostgreSQL

Ready

(Note: Ready is no longer being actively maintained.)

Get Ready to find your new favorite book!

Ready is a web application inspired by Goodreads built using Ruby on Rails and React.js. Ready allows users to:

• Create an account
• Log in / Log out securely with BCrypt
• Organize books within Shelves displayed on User pages
• Search for Books by Author, Title, ISBN
• Add Friends
• View a Feed of Friend activity
• Rate books and get recommendations
• Dynamically view detailed book information on hover

Design Docs

• View Wireframes
• DB schema

Future Features

• Tag books with multiple genres and search books by genre
• Write reviews as part of ratings
• Users can like/comment on other users' ratings
• Receive notifications of new Friends and comments
• Set reading goals and track progress
• Feed contains recommended books, "featured" books
• Users can edit profiles and add photos using Paperclip/AWS
• Author pages and special access for authors
• Favorite quotes lists (separate table)
• Email confirmation on signup using Mailer
• Optimizations: Genres can be encoded as numbers for faster lookup
• Multiple sessions
• Users can import books from Amazon using OmniAuth