Final project questions for UW PCE Advanced Rails course.

Adv Rails Final Questions

What's the name of your app?
  Beerdar

What does it do?
  Shows the user happy hours nearby, sorted by proximity, in either a map or list view, optimized for use on mobile devices.

What's the GitHub url?
  https://github.com/cherimarie/beerdar

What's the production url?
  http://beerdar-dev.herokuapp.com/

Who was on your team?
  David Husa + Cheri Allen  

Which covered topics did you leverage?
  Formatting time, passing data to javascript, understanding asset pipeline, migrating to PostgreSQL, deploying to Heroku

Which feature(s) are you most proud of?


How did you ensure your code is correct?


What challenges, technical and/or non-technical, did you overcome?
  We didn't know any Javascript at beginning, so Cheri volunteered to learn it to make the MapBox interface work. She knows a lot more now, but it was a huge time-sink. During the quarter, the two of us were out of town for a cumulative total of three weeks, so that cut down on available work time a lot. David made a cool scraper to get data from the Stranger's happy hour website, but that turned out to be a pretty dang intensive project, as well.  

What would you have liked to add given more time?
  More query options for users, ability for users to suggest new locations.

What would you do differently?
  Not have done a map-based app. Not have let the map part eat all of Cheri's time.

How does the final version of your app compare to your initial vision?
  It'simpler, which makes it easier to use on mobile devices. Not as feature-rich as we would have liked.