Exercise to learn Ruby/RoR

README

After push to Heroku, heroku run rake seed_db:create_test_user and heroku run rake seed_db:seed_locations_from_location_json

Known Issues

• When you have one location selected (e.g., Wells Fargo) and you search for an unrelated location (e.g., Starbucks) and select one of the latter, Wells Fargo will still be in the search results. An easyish fix given a little bit more time.
• It's just a simple ILIKE query for search, so no nice fuzzy completion, although I'm sure there's a gem for that somewhere.
• I'm sure there's other stuff, considering I'm new to Ruby and Rails!

Devlog

• Starting with the official guide on the rails site: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html

• Installed RVM and using this cheat sheet: http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/rvm

  • Installing 2.1.5 — latest stable version, according to Google?
  • Installed Rails

• rails new location-winnow to create template

• While rails was running bundle install which was taking a while, started working on frontend:

  • Using CSS framework ‘Skeleton’ that I found on HN a few weeks ago and looked lightweight and cool: http://getskeleton.com
  • Modify template file

• Generate new ‘Welcome’ controller with ‘index’ action

• Add resource (locations)

  • Read about ActiveRecord to figure out how best to put the stuff from locations.json in the DB: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_basics.html

• Created and ran migrations for Location, User

• Create tasks to parse locations.json and add a sample User

• Created migration to link Users and Location

• Set up endpoint for pulling down all locations in JSON form

• Got asset pipeline working for including the CSS from the Skeleton framework - http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html

• Got endpoint for PATCHing User object for updating location working

• Using rails-assets to get dependencies for Backbone, etc https://rails-assets.org/

• Lots of issues with Asset pipeline — not getting the correct version of marionette?

• Finally got it to work by manually including Marionette instead of using rails-assets version, jeez.

• Decided to use an Autocomplete library https://github.com/devbridge/jQuery-Autocomplete

• Building out Marionette views, User syncs location successfully

• Filtering, looked a bit at http://backbonefu.com/2011/08/filtering-a-collection-in-backbone-js/, didn’t realize there was a keyup event so easily accessible

• Automatic filter was successful, made it pretty clean, now trying to go back through and format things to look a little nicer

• Want to get rails app on Heroku

• Had to switch to postgresql db because Heroku doesn’t support sqlite3

• Asset pipeline not working on Heroku

• Fixed with http://natashatherobot.com/rails-4-heroku-assets-not-found-css-image/