Gulp

On Heroku

Minimum Viable Product

Gulp is a web application inspired by Yelp built using a PostgreSQL database, Ruby on Rails on the backend, and React/Redux on the front. By May 1st, this app will, at a minimum, satisfy the following criteria with smooth, bug-free navigation, adequate seed data and sufficient CSS styling:

• Hosting on Heroku
• Authentication: new account creation, login, and guest/demo login using BCrypt
• Business Page: displays business info, map with business location marker, list of reviews, and new review form. Allows for the editing of reviews associated with the currently logged-in user.
• Search Bar: provides dropdown autocomplete suggestions as you type
• Reviews/Ratings: CRUD capable
• Search Results Page: displays Google map with business location markers based on top search results
• Production README

Implementation Timeline

Phase 1: Backend Setup and Front End User Authentication (2 days)

Objective: To create a functioning rails project with front-end authentication

Phase 2: Models (1 day)

Objective: To build complete business, review, photo, and category models, including associations and validations.

Phase 3: Seed Database (1 day)

Objective To seed database.

• To give Users randomly generated names
• To create drink-related Categories, selected from [Yelp's category list]: https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/category_list
• To take real-world data from Yelp's Fusion API to generate Businesses, Reviews, and Photos based on the selected drink-related Categories, and attributing them to random Users

Phase 4: Search Bar (1 day)

Objective To render top search results into dropdown list and navigation pages as user types in a search term.

Phase 5: Business Search Results Page (1 day)

Objective To display list of businesses when user submits search term.

Phase 6: Business Detail Page (1 day)

Objective To display business show page when user's search matches a business name.

Phase 7: Reviews (2 days)

Objective To display business reviews on business show page, and allow user to write reviews if they're logged in.

Phase 8: Maps (2 days)

Objective To display a map on the search results page and the business show page, with information boxes that display business info on mouseover.

Phase 9: CSS (4 days)

Objective To make things pretty.

Phase 10: Add CRUD capabilities to reviews (2 days)

Objective To allow users to create, edit and delete reviews associated with their account.

Phase 11: Personal Profile Page (1 day)

Objective To display list of reviews associated with the current user's account on their personal profile page.

Bonus Features (TBD)

• Personal profiles
• Responsiveness
• Performance and Scaling
• Specs