Quick CV is aimed at removing the hassle of keeping your Curriculum Vitae or Resume up-to-date. These days I use LinkedIn and if anything changes that gets updated before my actual CV.
Quick CV will eventually be able to generate a professional looking CV using only the data you have already stored on LinkedIn.
- LinkedIn App. Quick CV uses the LinkedIn api to get the data in which to populate the CV/Resume
- Memcached to handle the applications cache
- Ruby 1.9.3 the main application is developed to run on ruby1.9.3 but other versions may well work
Quick CV uses bundler to manage gem dependencies. To get started make sure you have ruby1.9.3 (or any other supported ruby version), bundler gem installed and memcache running (by default it expects localhost to have a memcached server running on the default port).
Create a LinkedIn App and store the app key and app secret in an environment variable (LINKEDIN_APP_KEY and LINKEDIN_APP_SECRET respectively)
Now use the following to start a local server.
bundle install
LINKEDIN_APP_KEY=xxx LINKEDIN_APP_SECRET=xxx bundle exec shotgun
- PDF generation using
prawn - Tests, specs and VCR recordings
- Front-end design/UI
- Customisable sections (displaying languages instead of skills for example)
- Customisable order (order the sections using drag and drop)
- Shareable URIs (share a custom URI that will render your up-to-date CV)
- ???
- Suggestions?
Contributions are more than welcome! Please just fork the repository and make a pull request when complete.
All non-documentation changes should include passing specs.
VCR recordings for later testing would be hugely helpful. Those with knowledge on how to do that please contribute. Don't forget to remove any personal identifying information from the recordings. As always testing against real user data would be much more beneficial to identifying issues.
Feel free to also create a CONTRIBUTIONS.md and add yourself to that.
Quick CV, automating cv and resume updates
Copyright (C) 2013 Darren A Coxall
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