(Demo available at http://lunchladydemo.heroku.com — do whatever you like over there; secret passphrase is “opensesame”)

At infochimps, we buy lunch for everyone in the office(†), and it’s always a pain to wrangle everyone’s order in on time. Hooray weekend app!

Lunchlady will

• Help you know which restaurants are the best-loved, or overpriced, or haven’t been ordered from in a while
• Remember everyone’s past orders, if they don’t get one in on time
• Make your office manager happy, which is the secret to a successful business

You can try it out here — thanks Heroku!

(† One of many reasons you should come work with us — there is such a thing as a free lunch!)

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Notes

• Code for the lunchlady app is at https://github.com/infochimps/lunchlady
• The app is based on my fork of the Greendog rails template.
• Built in a weekend with emacs, heroku, infochimps and Rails 3; uses devise, ajaxful_rating (@mrbrdo & @kamui’s jquery inflection); html5-boilerplate + compass + the compass 960.gs port + sass + hassle; friendly_id; hashgrid.js

To run the app

  cd lunchlady
  bundle install
  cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml  # and edit if desired
  rake db:migrate
  rake db:seed    # optional: loads a bunch of restaurants so you can play around. Editdb/seeds.rb and db/seeds/*.tsv to suit
  rails server

You will want to set a signup shibboleth by editing config/app_config.yml. On heroku, you can instead set an environment variable:
heroku config:add SIGNUP_SHIBBOLETH=your_watchword

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Behavior

As a visitor to the homepage

• I should be invited to sign in or sign up if I’m not logged in.
• If I am logged in, I should be able to quickly place my order and know that it was received.

As a person placing an order

• It’s easy to find the restaurant’s menu
• It’s straightforward to type in a new order and its price
• I can call up an old order if I always get the same thing

• I can enter an order for another person
• I’m prevented from creating two orders for the same person and meal

As a Lunchmeister organizing a meal

• I can create a new meal efficiently
• I get a few good robo-suggestions for the restaurant, but have absolute supreme unquestioned authority to choose any restaurant
• I can change the restaurant for a meal
  – It should be possible (but difficult) to do this once any orders have been set.
  – changing the restaurant should delete all current orders

As a Lunchmeister finalizing a meal

• I can see
  – the phone number and other details of the restaurant
  – all the orders that have been placed
  – the total expected cost and the suggested tip
  – whether orders from people who typically order lunch are missing
• I can enter a “best-guess” order for somebody who hasn’t ordered
• I can see metrics on each restaurant to ask for a discount, and to make sure any minimum monthly order target is hit.

As a team optimizing for overall joy

• We can see
  – actual overall price per person for each restaurant
  – how long it’s been since we ordered from the restaurant
  – how much people love the restaurant
• We can make sure everyone’s favorite restaurant is cycled through, even if it’s not the team consensus
• So that metrics are accurate, I should not be able to edit a past meal or order, and should not be able to create ones in the unrealistic future
• restaurant votes are fair:
  – each user’s votes are adjusted to their mean
  – only include regulars

So that we can have visitors over

• I can invite a guest to the office and pay out-of-pocket for their meal
• We can have visitors over who will pay for their own meal.
• Correct accounting for team, company guests and co-paid guests

As a team that is efficient and open, but not too open

• I should be able to place an order for another person
• If I’m logged in I can do anything, but am discouraged from doing stupid things
• It’s easy for a guest to sign up given a minimal token
• It’s difficult for a griefer to get an account

• If I am not logged in, the only pages I can view are
  – the homepage, which shows only some stuff
  – the login, signup, and password recovery pages

Account

• list all users:
  – all users (with link), email, avatar, number of orders, is_local
• show any user:
  – user info
  – user metrics
  – rated restaurants
  – past orders
• log out:
  – link on top when I’m signed in, not when I’m signed out.
• log in:
  – link on top when I’m signed out, not when I’m signed in.
• register new account:
  – link on top when I’m signed out, not when I’m signed in.
  – prompts for full name, email, is_local,
• edit my account:
  – name, email, is_local
  – change password

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TODO

• Stats:
  – Average per-head order price of restaurant
  – ‘unfairness’ rating of restaurants (Joe likes X a 5, everyone else a 2, how often should it cycle thru)
• Time of day vs. lunchtime vs. weekends
• Do we want to be able to say “out of office”?
• Meals other than lunch

• -add restaurant inspections-2 from infochimps—
• -make it so you have to type a magic word into the signup box to create a new account-
• -validations-
• -Remember past orders for restaurant and suggest them to user (rails part works, but need javascript to inject into text field)-
• -Vote for a restaurant-
• -How long since we last ordered from a restaurant-
• -consensus rating-

heroku console Rails.cache.clear —app lunchlady