Chef Genius

Allows users to submit recipes for other users to annotate, using a highlighting UI similar to Rap Genius.

Technical Features

Uses Backbone on the front-end and Rails on the back-end. Features:

• Polymorphic associations and concerns on Rails backend
• Both native Javascript and jQuery methods used for annotatable UI.
• DOM traversal across both Nodes and Elements
• Smart new-Recipe form, adds blank inputs as needed.
• S3/Papercip for image storage and uploading.
• Devise & CanCan for user Authentication/Authorization, respectively.
• Features class inheritance of Backbone views to implement Annotatable and Editable Recipes.
• Recipe annotations use markdown.
• Uses Regex to automatically markdown links and images.

Version Information:

• Ruby: 1.9.3
• Rails: 4.0.2
• Backbone: 1.1.1

Dependencies of Note:

• devise - User Authentication
• cancan - User Authorization
• figaro - Safe key storage
• paperclip - Image uploading
• aws-sdk - Image storage through Amazon S3
• pg - uses PostgreSQL for database

Points of Interest:

• Annotatable UI Implementation
• Editable Recipe UI Implementation
• New Recipe Form

Contact

Any questions about this project? Feel free to send an email to brooks85.ty@gmail.com. Thanks!