README.md

icare


icare is an open source carpooling platform used as a basis for our commercial product Company Carpool.

Carpooling (also known as car-sharing, ride-sharing, lift-sharing and covoiturage), is the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car. By having more people using one vehicle, carpooling reduces each person’s travel costs such as fuel costs, tolls, and the stress of driving. Carpooling is also seen as a more environmentally friendly and sustainable way to travel as sharing journeys reduces carbon emissions, traffic congestion on the roads, and the need for parking spaces. Authorities often encourage carpooling, especially during high pollution periods and high fuel prices. (From Wikipedia)

icare uses the following technologies:

• Ruby on Rails
• CoffeeScript
• Handlebars.js (JavaScript semantic templates)
• SLIM
• Twitter Bootstrap
• Font Awesome (retina ready vectorial icons)
• Mongoid (ODM for MongoDB)
• Devise
• Asynchronous tasks with Resque - Redis
• RABL API Builder
• Facebook Open Graph / Rest API with Koala
• Google Maps API
• RSpec
• Heroku Cloud Application Platform
• Multi-Environment configuration
• Airbrake Exception Notification
• New Relic Application Performance Management service

A working demo is available at http://icare.diowa.com/

Name and logo

icare name and logo are temporary. icare is a portmanteau of "I care", "Car" and "Environment". No copyright violation is intended.

Roadmap

Immediate: Check out our To Do list. Long-term: TODO

Internationalization (i18n)

icare uses standard Rails Internationalization (I18n) API. If you translated icare in your own language, make a pull request.

Contributing

Please read through our contributing guidelines. Included are directions for opening issues, coding standards, and notes on development.

More over, if your pull request contains patches or features, you must include relevant unit tests.

Editor preferences are available in the editor config for easy use in common text editors. Read more and download plugins at http://editorconfig.org.

If you are interested in feature development, we have priorities. Check out our To Do list.

Authors

Geremia Taglialatela

• http://github.com/tagliala
• http://twitter.com/gtagliala

Cesidio Di Landa

• http://github.com/cesidio
• http://twitter.com/cesid

Copyright and license

icare is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License

Check the LICENSE file for more information

Thanks

Special thanks to all developers of open source libraries used in this project.

Donations

If you like this project or you are considering to use it (or any part of it) for commercial purposes, please make a donation to the authors.