WildFire
GA WDI DC April 2014, Project 2
Overview
WildFire is a recreational web application designed to generate buzz for any special event by incrementally revealing its location on a map based on the amount of times a specified hashtag was tweeted. It was developed as a sample Rails project for the April 2014 Web Development Immersive course at General Assembly. It was developed over a 5 day sprint to model the agile software development process.
Technologies Used
- Ruby 2.1.1
- Ruby on Rails 4.1.1
- PostgreSQL Database
- Authentication & Authorization using Devise and OmniAuth
- Twitter integration using the Twitter REST API
- Testing using using rspec-rails, capybara, shoulda-matchers and factory_girl_rails
- CSS styling using Bootstrap
User Stories Completed
- As a user I can see a list of all events in my area
- As a user I can log in
- As a user I can connect to and log in with Twitter
- As a user I can see an event map
- As a user I can see an event on the map near a specified zip code
- As a user I can see a hashtag associated with an event
- As a user I can see a twitter feed of a hashtag on an event page
- As a user I can subscribe to an event when logged in
Backlog
A full list of user stories can be found on our Pivotal Tracker Project
Initial Wireframes
ERD
*Within database, event location is stored as 1) zip code, 2) latitude & longitude, and 3) physical address