This site!
This website was one of the first of my personal coding projects which I worked on outside of a team. Built from the ground up as a totally solo project, this was creatively a lot of fun, as I had complete freedom over design choices and color palettes 😁
Creating a working contact form seemed like it would be such a straightforwards task, but coding this for the first time (there's always a first time for everything, right?) was probably the trickiest part of this project. But that work paid off, and it makes me very satisfied to see it now working in both development and production environments! Why don't you try it out yourself by clicking on "message me" on my contact page...? The carousel modal (see below) also caused some headaches to implement correctly and without bugs, but again, sticking with it and working through those bugs gave an even greater feeling to see it working as envisioned!
Technical Features:
- Ruby On Rails
- Embedded Ruby, HTML, JavaScript Stimulus and SCSS
- Rails ActionMailer for the working contact form
- Production hosting using Heroku
- Responsive design across a variety of devices
- SSL Certificate for encryption and security
GigBuddy
A mobile app for users to find others with whom they share a music taste, allowing new friendships to be made and with the idea for users to find friends to attend music concerts with.
This was my final project during the Le Wagon bootcamp I completed at the start of 2024. I was the lead developer for this project, in a group with two other students, after initially pitching the rough idea around half-way through the course. In under ten days, we went from fully realising what the features of the app would be, forming all user stories and wireframing to presenting the working product, in production, to a live audience.
Technical Features:
- Ruby On Rails Framework
- Embedded Ruby, HTML, SCSS and JavaScript
- Spotify API integrated to allow users to search and add their favorite artists to their profiles (part of the key algorithm to find potential matches with other users on the site). Also links each artist's artwork as per their spotify profiles
- Devise Ruby Gem for secure user sign in/sign up
- Pundit Ruby Gem to ensure users can only edit their own profiles, and not any one else's
- ActiveStorage and Cloudinary for users to upload photos to their profiles
- ActiveRecord/PostgreSQL database
- Redis, Web Socket and ActionCable for live chat feature
- Heroku for production hosting
- SSL Certificate for encryption and security
Dogbnb
A website for dog owners to find kennels/accommodation for their pet to stay in whilst they are away.
Prior to our final projects, we were tasked with creating a clone Airbnb website as a mock project. In less than five days, myself (again as lead developer) and my two teammates went from deciding on our own approach to the 'Airbnb' style site, through user stories and wireframing, to presenting the completed site on the afternoon of the fifth day. This challenge was my introduction to working on a full project and as a team, handling task delegation, different branches and the conflicts which would inevitably appear. We were very ambitious as a team, and although had hoped to add a few more features, I am proud of what we achieved as a first teamworking project, and in less than five days start to finish!
Technical Features:
- Ruby On Rails
- Embedded Ruby, HTML, SCSS, JavaScript
- ActiveRecord/PostgreSQL database
- ActiveStorage and Cloudinary for photo upload and attachment
- Simpleform and bootstrap with further SCSS styling to tweak to design
- Devise Ruby Gem for secure user sign-up/sign-in
- Heroku for production hosting
- Photo carousel for each item listing, both on index and show pages
- Modal overlay on individual item listing page when item clicked on, so that user can better view all attached images
- JavaScript date picker and math calculation to quote total price for user when placing booking
- Functional search bar feature to improve user experience
LocalMarket
After completion of my web development course, I was approached and asked if I wanted to be involved in a new project a friend had an idea for - an online marketplace for users to find local farmers/producers of homegrown food products (e.g. milk, eggs, fruits, vegetables etc.), or for these farmers to list their produce online for others to find and buy. My role in this project was assisting with the creation and set-up of the back-end side of the application.
Technical Features I was involved in:
- Creating the ActiveRecord database/schema with associations, all models (and required validations for each), controllers and view pages, along with their matching routes, and ActiveStorage and Cloudinary for image upload
- Installing and implementing Devise and Pundit Ruby Gems, to handle secure user sign-in/sign-up, authentication and authorization
- Creating a live-chat feature between sellers and buyers, using Web Socket, ActionCable and JavaScript