CHICAGO TOW TRACKER

Find out if your car is towed in the city of Chicago!
--A TEAM TBD creation

Dude? Where's your car?

Technologies Used

• FRONT-END: HTML, CSS, Javascript
• BACK-END: Ruby, Sinatra Framework, ActiveRecord ORM, postgresql

Approach taken

Planning Phase

We started by discussing user stories and then doodled out all the possible actions a user would take on our page. This helped us to create our detailed wire frame that lays out every possible route, view, and functionality we would need to build in.

We tried to map out the entire scope of the project early so we wouldn't be stepping on each others' toes during production. Wireframing is wonderful.

##INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

Login and setup servers

From a handy guide written by James Traver

Provision the server

1. ssh root@[your.ip.address.here] (if you have ssh setup)
2. apt-get update > y at prompt
3. apt-get install git
4. apt-get install ruby
5. gem install bundler
6. gem install pry
7. gem install json -v '1.8.2' (makes sure this works before bundling)
8. bundle
9. apt-get install build-essential -- plox
10. apt-get install ruby-dev

Install the app

1. git clone https://github.com/GA-TBD/car_finder.git

Create database

1. psql
2. Run the commands in /db/migrations.sql

Run the app

1. nohup bundle exec rackup -p 80 --host 0.0.0.0 &

• nohup - Allows the app to run even after terminal is closed.
• "-p 80" specifies port 80
• "--host" specifies local host
• "&" run in the background

LIVE LINK:

http://159.203.25.108

HOW IT WORKS/FEATURES:

• use the search functionality on the left to find you car either by PLATE # or CAR DESCRIPTION

Plate Search:

• if your car is found, it'll show you which lot it's at and a map of how to get there
• you also have the option to save this search as your car for future tow tracker searches.

Car Description Search:

• in case you don't have your plate number on you,

OPEN ISSUES/BUGS

• httparty only retrieves 1000 items
• protect against multiple adds of same car for a user
• only allow adds for license match / exact match ?? i think we should still
• guard against failed database calls
  • .destroy on nil object because didn't find it first
• edit car = should we allow?

FUTURE FEATURES - WANTED

• remove "state" match stuff because searcher doesn't really need it
• add 4th tier match (2 attributes only) -s
• handle httparty error - d
  • offline
  • doesn't respond. timeout. This happened while testing!
• update saved car